Indigenous peoples
“Zapata spoke Nahuatl”: Indigenous Mexicans Participating in the Mexican Revolution
A discussion of how to teach the participation of Indigenous peoples in the Mexican Revolution.
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
“Know How to Treat Indians”: Indigenous American Resistance to the British Attempts at Christianization
A discussion of Indigenous American resistance in eighteenth-century New York.
“You Glory in Our Old Rags”: Indigenous Americans and the Fur Trade in Northern America, c.1600 - c.1800
Discussion of teaching the North American fur trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that centers Indigenous American experiences.
“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.
“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
