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.
“A World Shaped by Enlightenment Ideas of Race and White Supremacy”: Rethinking How We Teach the Enlightenment
Discussion of how to teach the racism of the Enlightenment
“The Disease Brought Great Desolation”: An Indigenous Account of the Great Dying
Teaching the Great Dying from an Indigenous American perspective
“Desist from Deporting the Jews”: Jews and the Ottoman Empire in the Late Sixteenth Century
Discussion of teaching how Ottoman policy regarding Sephardic Jews changed in the sixteenth century
“A Commerical Market for All Nations”: Benjamin of Tudela’s Descriptions of Baghdad and Alexandria
Discussion of using Benjamin of Tudela as an example of travelers in premodern Afroeurasia
“The Present Thinking of the World”: Decolonization in Jamaica and the British Caribbean
Discussion of how to include the decolonization of Jamaica in our teaching of decolonization.
“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
