
Liberating Narratives is a weekly subscription newsletter helping world history teachers decolonize their classes. Each post explores how to teach specific historical topics and includes primary and secondary source excerpts, historical images, and maps. Bram Hubbell is the author. He can be found on Twitter and Mastodon.
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Bram annually takes a two week winter break in late December/early January and a one month break from 15 June to 15 July.
“The Voyage Was Full of Dangers”: Teaching Modern Migration, 1700 to Present
Discussion of teaching modern global migration from 1700 to today

Voices of the Southern Front: Decolonizing our Teaching of the First World War
A discussion of how to teach the First World War using sources from India and the Middle East.

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.

“White Devils All Over Asia”: Teaching New Imperialism, c.1850 - c.1940
A discussion of how to teach New Imperialism in world history courses and centering the voices of colonized people.

“Method of Building the Ships”: Chinese Ships Before 1400
Discussion of teaching Indian Ocean shipping technology

Monthly Digest: August 2025
Monthly digest for August 2025

“A Huge Contingent of Armed Africans”: Revisiting Enslaved African Resistance
Discussion of teaching the Malê Revolt

“The Horrors of the Cruel System of Slavery”: Revisiting the Transatlantic Slave System
Discussion of teaching Brazil and the transatlantic slave system

“As Soon as the Merchants Arrive”: Melaka and Indian Ocean Trade Before 1450
Discussion of teaching Melaka

“Everything is Found in Zanzibar”: East Africa, Zanzibar, and World History in the Nineteenth Century
Discussion of teaching nineteenth-century East Africa and Zanzibar

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