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“Those Who Refuse Slavery”: Teaching the Short-Term Effects of the Haitian Revolution
A discussion of teaching the short-term effects of the Haitian Revolution
“The Sacred Flame of Liberté”: Teaching the Revolution of the Haitian Revolution
A discussion of teaching the role of women and Toussaint Louverture in the Haitian Revolution.
“Revenge Our Wrongs”: Saint-Domingue Before the Haitian Revolution
A discussion of how to teach Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Haitian Revolution.
“We Have Dared to be Free”: Teaching the Haitian Revolution
A discussion of how world history teachers can teach the Haitian Revolution to highlight its global significance and legacies.
“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.
“At Last I Defended Myself”: 400 Years of Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave System
A discussion of how to center the resistance of enslaved Africans when teaching the transatlantic slave system in world history courses.
“Suffering the Most Excruciating Torments”: The Height of the Transatlantic Slave System, 1650-1850
A discussion of how to teach the transatlantic slave system in the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
“If there were no buyers there would be no sellers”: Teaching the Transatlantic Slave System, c.1450 - c.1850
A discussion of how world history teachers can teach the transatlantic slave system in a way that centers Black African voices.
"People Who Have Interrupted Empire": African and Indigenous Resistance in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
I’ve looked at more world history textbooks than I want to admit. One thing almost all of them have in common is some discussion of Portuguese maritime expansion along the western coast of Africa in the fifteenth century and the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas in the
