I always enjoyed teaching the Haitian Revolution. The topic always excited students, and the resources are great.

Excellent op-ed by Roxanne Gay “Civility Is a Fantasy” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/opinion/civility-fantasy-power-kirk.html

Last week I wrote about the causes of the Haitian Revolution and got lots of great feedback. Thanks 🙏 I also had a couple of sources I left out and wanted to share. 🗺️🗃️ #histodons www.liberatingnarratives.com/...

Teaching global feminism in world history is like teaching resistance by enslaved Africans or colonized peoples. It should be our default approach. Women (and a few men) have consistently challenged patriarchy and pushed for greater equality. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/souls-are-ne...

One more reason I love @footballweekly.bsky.social Great to hear from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social even if I’m a Spurs fan and he’s an Arsenal fan

I'm trying a new experiment and sharing Liberating Narratives free posts on Substack and Medium. I know lots of people use those platforms. Everything I post will still be available on the main site.

Finishing up these two new excellent books.

New post! I discuss how we can teach the influence of African women on the slave trade using Crispina Peres. I draw heavily on the work of Toby Green. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/a-single-bla...

History for the 21st Century publishes excellent case studies for world history classrooms. They are targeted at the college level, but the sources can easily be adapted to the high school level. 🗺️🗃️ www.history21.com

Putting this post together was an eye opener for me. I’ve written a lot about teaching the transatlantic slave system, and I didn’t realize how much my focus was on the North Atlantic rather than Brazil and West Central Africa (the South Atlantic) I hope I provided some helpful resources for folks

I loved writing these posts on East Africa. There are so many great primary sources to use with students.

New post on early modern East Africa. How much influence did the Portuguese have? Not much when we look at the sources! 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/at-variance-...

I’m offering a free workshop tomorrow night (8/12). It’s on teaching the Mongols at 7PM ET/4PM PT. I hope to see you there. www.liberatingnarratives.com/a-great-army...

This has been a challenging year with writing. It felt good to take a break and then come back with this topic.

I forgot to share this article on teaching the Indochina Wars when it was published last month 🗺️🗃️ journals.gmu.edu/whc/article/...

Good article on the upcoming 80th anniversary of the 5th Pan-African Congress that jumpstarted post-WW2 decolonization 🗺️🗃️ www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

In the fall of 1994, I took a seminar on the Crusades and wrote a research paper on the Jewish massacres of the First Crusade. It feels a little wild writing about this same topic 31 years later!

After almost ten years away, I’m heading back to the AP World History reading this week. Any other folks going? 🗺️🗃️

I always love taking traditionally Eurocentric topics and showing how they can be approached from a more global perspective!

It was fun writing this new post on the Crusades, a topic I’ve always enjoyed, but have often been bothered by how it’s typically portrayed in public imagination www.liberatingnarratives.com/the-meeting-...

Here it is, my 220th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Please add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

Off to Japan! 🇯🇵

So I basically avoided looking at Bluesky for the last 7 weeks while traveling in India. Did I miss any news? #theunitedstatesisadumpsterfire

I’m leading a free workshop tonight on modernity, the great divergence, and world history for Columbia University’s Asia for Educators. You can still sign up 🗺️🗃️ afe.easia.columbia.edu/programs/25s...

New post on Africa in the Forty Years’ War. I discuss African soldiers in the world wars, Ethiopians fighting fascism, & the roots of African decolonization 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/we-the-women...

I wrote about oceans as bridges in world history 🗺️🗃️ community.oerproject.com/b/blog/posts...

This was a fun post I researched over the last few weeks but finished editing on a beach in Goa. The story of the Japanese soldier who fought for 5 armies blew my mind.

Traveling with a toddler in India is amazing, beautiful, exhausting, and so much more

Excited to share the free preview of Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives: Excavating the Environmental Conflicts of the Iberian Globalization (@amsterdamupress.bsky.social). Feel free to share within your network! #histsci #earlymodern #skystorians www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Excited to be in Delhi and pick up @amitav.bsky.social new book before it comes out in the states.

Naughara is a historic road in Chandni Chowk (Old Delhi). It has nine beautiful doors and was home to the jewelers of the Mughal Emperors. 🗺️🗃️

When I get great Indian food in Delhi after too long of living in Charleston

Great discussion of a painting from Glasgow showing the links to the transatlantic slave system. Slavery’s legacies are everywhere! 🗺️🗃️ glasgowmuseumsslavery.co.uk/2020/07/29/s...

Just flew from home to JFK and now it’s time to fly to India. Expect a few India photos the next 6 weeks!

Holiday break is over & Liberating Narratives is back! Today's new post is about Ottoman & Persian opium and the scary importance of opium to all Euro imperialism in Southeast Asia 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/freedom-of-t...

Researching this post blew my mind. I had no idea how many countries were involved in the opium trade in the late 19th century. It’s not just the British and Chinese! It really spanned the Indian Ocean.

This was fun talking about a creative, bottom-up survey that involves storytelling!

Wrapping up our sponsored session "Designing the Un-survey: New Approaches to the Introductory World History Syllabus" with Q&A. Huge thanks to the panelists Lucy Barnhouse, Emily Fisher Gray, Bram Hubbell, and Jesse A. Spohnholz as well as Steve Harris for chairing.

hey folks attending #aha25 @historians.org this weekend, if you teach any african history at any level come along to a session I'm helping moderate on "the state of the field for busy teachers" on friday at 3:30. as someone who teaches medieval africa to high schoolers I'm keen to learn too!

I loved legos as a kid. I never understood the adult dude obsession with legos. I may just have found a reason to play with Legos at 50!

Flying to NYC today. On Sat morning, I’m participating in a round table on the “Unsurvey” in World History at @historians.org 🗺️🗃️

My last "favorite" post of the year was about teaching the 18th century transatlantic slave trade as the start of modern migration 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/longing-for-...

Another fun post this year was writing about the intersection of the Black Death and the Little Ice Age in the Middle East 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/the-severe-c...

Here's one more favorite post from the past year. I discussed how we can integrate recent research on African technology into our teaching of the origins of the Industrial Revolution 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/they-forge-t...

Reading @sathnam.bsky.social’s Empireworld and this incredible line made me laugh out loud

I agree 100%. Everything on my site can be read with a 3 day trial subscription or be purchased as an individual post for $1. We need to pay writers, not expect them to give away their words for free.

Another favorite post from this year was about using short stories when teaching Israeli & Palestinian history 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/hebrew-with-...

Another favorite post I wrote this year was about Sephardic Jews in the late Ottoman Empire 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/we-should-al...

I'm finishing an incredible book about the history of travel. This quote is relevant to any teacher & student who ever used or heard the ridiculous phrase "Age of Discovery." 🗺️🗃️

I’m going to share a few of my favorite posts from the past year. I’m starting with my post on teaching Fanon’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/to-destroy-t...