East Africa
“At Variance with the Europeans”: East Africa, 1400 - c.1750
Discussion of teaching early modern East Africa
“Under God’s Guidance to the Lands of the Swahili Coast”: East Africa Before 1500
Discussion of teaching East African history before 1500
“A Mixed Population of Muslims and Zanj”: Teaching East Africa in World History, c.1000 to Present
Discussion of teaching East Africa Africa in World History
“We the Women Will Fight”: Africa in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching Africa in the world wars
Monthly Digest: February 2024
Digest for February 2024
“We Will Fight in Every Way We Can”: Teaching Decolonization from 1945 to 1955
Discussion of how to teach decolonization from 1945 to 1955 using African and Asian primary sources
“Conscious of Myself as a Kenya African”: The Effect of the Second World War on Colonial African Soldiers
Discussion of how the Second World affected African soldiers fighting in Asia.
“The Outbreak of the Present War”: Decolonization During and After the Second World War
Discussion of teaching decolonization’s connections to the Second World War and the Cold War
“Colonialism in all its Manifestations is an Evil”: Teaching Decolonization, 1914 to Present
Discussion of how to teach decolonization in world history courses and centering the agency of colonized peoples
“The Unspun Thread for the Message of Allah”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
A discussion of teaching the Indian Ocean exchange network in the sixteenth century.
