“To Fend for Existence in the Poorest Conditions”: Women and Decolonization in 1963
A discussion of how we can use a speech from 1963 to discuss decolonization, gender roles, feminism, and the Cold War.
“Their Voices Must Be Heard”: Women, Intersectionality, and Competing Global Visions in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
A discussion of how to teach the world historical roots of present-day issues using sources by women from the Global South
“Use Their Institutions to Promote Their Own Interests”: Competing Global Visions from 1975 to 1991
A discussion of how we can teach the end of the Cold War and the last decades of the twentieth century in world history.
Monthly Digest: May 2023
Monthly Digest for May 2023
“Tightly Bound in Spirt”: Vietnamese Anticolonialism in the 1930s
An example of Vietnamese anticolonialism against French rule from 1937.
“Militant Unity and Solidarity”: Cuba, North Korea, and the Cold War
Discussion of the Cuban-North Korean relationship in the 1970s as a way to analyze the Cold War from a global perspective.
“Korea, like Cuba”: The Cold War Beyond the United States and the Soviet Union
Discussion of the Cuban-North Korean relationship in the 1960s as a way to analyze the Cold War from a global perspective.
“Maintain Friendly Relations with All Countries”: Competing Global Visions from 1945 to 1975
A discussion of how to teach the Cold War as a global event with multiple visions for the world.
Beyond the Good War: Alternative Narratives for Teaching World War II
A discussion of how to teach World War II in world history courses by focusing on resources and extreme violence.
Mauling the British: Tipu Sultan, Mysore, and Resistance to British Imperialism in India
A visual primary source showing how Mysore resisted British imperialism in southern India in the second half of the eighteenth century
