Short Post
Weekly posts (published on Monday or Tuesday) highlighting a primary source (either textual or visual) that aligns with the AP Modern World History Curriculum.
“The Total Liberation of the African Continent”: Kwame Nkrumah’s Independence Speech and Decolonization
Discussion of Kwame Nkrumah’s independence speech as a tool to teach decolonization
“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.
“On the Path of Liberation”: Chinese Anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s
Discussion of teaching anticolonialism in China in the 1920s and 1930s using posters
“A Free State with Full Sovereignty”: Amazigh (Berber) Anticolonialism and the Republic of the Rif in Morocco
Discussion of Amazigh (Berber) independent state as example of anticolonialism
“Expose the Hollowness of Moral Pretensions”: Gandhi on Non-cooperation and Anticolonialism in 1920
Discussion of how Gandhi saw non-cooperation as a response to events of 1919 and 1920
“All the Women of Cairo Would Have Taken Part”: Huda Sha’arawi and Egyptian Women’s Participation in the 1919 Revolution
Discussion of Huda Sha’arawi’s description of her participation in the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
Visualizing the Continuity of Asian Trade Networks in Sixteenth-Century Japanese Nanban Screens
Discussion of Japanese nanban screens and teaching continuity in the sixteenth-century Indian Ocean.
“Nothing Remained of the Houses”: Indigenous American Resistance to Columbus’ First Settlement in the Americas
Discussion of how to teach Indigenous American resistance to Columbus' first colony in the Americas
“The Function of Militarism is to Kill”: Emma Goldman and Questioning the First World War
Discussion of Emma Goldman and resistance to war during the First World War
“To Make Their Escape, and Mutiny”: Enslaved African Resistance During the Middle Passage
A discussion of using reading against the grain to help students understand mutinies on slave ships by enslaved Africans
