Latin America
The Last Supper in Cuzco: Indigenizing Christianity in the Andes
A discussion of syncretism in Spanish colonial Cuzco in the eighteenth century.
“Fought Against the Army”: Indigenous Americans and Argentina’s “Golden Age” (c.1875 - c.1920)
Discussion of teaching Indigenous Americans in Argentina and Latin America in the nineteenth century
“Indian Parents Defend their Daughter”: Indigenous Resistance in Early Seventeenth Century Peru
A discussion of Indigenous resistance in Spanish Peru.
“We Will Follow That Which Our Ancestors Followed”: Indigenous Agency and Navigating the Changes in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica
A discussion about teaching the agency of Indigenous Americans in sixteenth-century Mesoamerica.
“Peace Was Made with the Carios”: Snapshots from Indigenous American History
A discussion about integrating the experiences of Indigenous Americans into the teaching of world history.
“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
“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.
“Men so Heartless”: Historical Imagination and Potosí
A discussion of teaching the silver trade to understand the effects on Indigenous Americans better.
"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
