New post about teaching global feminism between 1750 & 1850 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/you-will-nev...

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/...

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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...

New post! I discuss how Marlene Daut’s new book on Henry Christophe and Julia Gaffield’s book on Jean-Jacques Dessalines are helpful to world history courses. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/astonish-the-world/

New post! Too often students assume enslaved Africans revolted on Saint-Domingue because they were inspired by the Enlightenment or the other Atlantic Revolutions. They didn't. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/enlightenmen...

Love to see this idea translated for teachers! It’s something Haitians, Carolyn Fick, and I have emphasized for for years, even as textbooks add the Haitian Rev by making it a product of “the Enlightenment“ or the French Rev.

Good point. You don't need to read philosophy in order to understand the person enslaving you is "bad" and should be stopped.

great post today: "European Enlightenment ideas did circulate in the Atlantic World, but so did African ideas. Europeans didn’t have a monopoly on the concept of liberty."

New post! Too often students assume enslaved Africans revolted on Saint-Domingue because they were inspired by the Enlightenment or the other Atlantic Revolutions. They didn't. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/enlightenmen...

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...

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...

New post about teaching the 1835 Malê Revolt in Brazil. It was the largest urban slave uprising in the Americas. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/a-huge-conti...

Time for a new theme for the month and a new free post. I wrote about why we should and how we can center Brazil when teaching the transatlantic slave system. 🗺️🗃️ I drew heavily on the work of @araujohistorian.bsky.social www.liberatingnarratives.com/the-horrors-...

Time for a new theme for the month and a new free post. I wrote about why we should and how we can center Brazil when teaching the transatlantic slave system. 🗺️🗃️ I drew heavily on the work of @araujohistorian.bsky.social www.liberatingnarratives.com/the-horrors-...

What happens to our standard narrative of the 19th century global economy when we stop in 1850 & focus on Zanzibar? It’s surprising to see how Africans, Arabs, & South Asians shaped the global economy & turned Zanzibar into a hub of global trade 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/everything-i...

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...

Excellent news! FWIW the UX for the Ghost newsletter that I receive, @liberatingnarratives.com , is better than Substack. Plus, no Nazis! Classic win-win-win

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 teaching the Mongols on Tuesday August 12 at 7PM ET/4PM PT. I hope to see you there. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/a-great-army...

After my annual summer break, I'm back with a new series on teaching East Africa in world history. This first post is free and introduces some resources and themes we can use when teaching East Africa. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/a-mixed-popu...

Because of the AP World Reading, I'm offering teachers 50% off annual subscriptions to Liberating Narratives. By subscribing, you can gain access to a 3-year archive of posts covering all the major topics in the AP World History curriculum. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/ap-reading-2...

We often teach about the Crusades as conflict, but how we teach about peacemaking and coexistence in the Levant? 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/going-throug...

New post on the First Crusade 🗺️🗃️ https://www.liberatingnarratives.com/piles-of-corpses-were-found-everywhere/

New post on the First Crusade 🗺️🗃️ https://www.liberatingnarratives.com/piles-of-corpses-were-found-everywhere/

New post on the 11th century historical context of the Crusades. How did increased interaction and climate shifts contribute to the First Crusade? 🗺️🗃️ https://www.liberatingnarratives.com/come-christians-and-jews/

New post on the 11th century historical context of the Crusades. How did increased interaction and climate shifts contribute to the First Crusade? 🗺️🗃️ https://www.liberatingnarratives.com/come-christians-and-jews/

New free post on teaching the Crusades in World History. As always, there are maps and images that can be used in the classroom, and a crazy comparison of Pete Hesgeth and Osama bin Laden! 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/the-meeting-...

New free post on teaching the Crusades in World History. As always, there are maps and images that can be used in the classroom, and a crazy comparison of Pete Hesgeth and Osama bin Laden! 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/the-meeting-...

How did the Korean March First Movement inspire other anti-imperial uprisings? This week’s post is about the East Asian 1919 anti-imperial uprisings. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/the-voice-of...

Recent free post on teaching the Anti-Imperial/Wilsonian uprisings of 1919 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/our-postcard...

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...

After a brief unanticipated publishing break while traveling in India, I'm back with another post on teaching East Asia during the world wars. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/a-turning-po...

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This week's post focuses on the Middle East in the Forty Years' War (the two World Wars) I discuss Ottoman Palestine, Egyptian cartoons in the 30s, & the Persian famine in 1942 www.liberatingnarratives.com/such-a-state...

It's the 15th - time for a new series & monthly free post! This month is about decolonizing the teaching of the World Wars using the “Forty Years' War.” I discuss how we can better use diverse experiences to understand the themes of the world wars. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/every-contin...

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...

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...

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

When teaching the opium trade, we often focus on British controlled east India & China. How does the story change if we focus on western India & Singapore? 🗺️🗃️

The opium trade was more than the Opium Wars; it was central to the 19th century global economy. This free post focuses on how we can rethink our teaching of the opium trade 🗺️🗃️

The opium trade was more than the Opium Wars; it was central to the 19th century global economy. This free post focuses on how we can rethink our teaching of the opium trade 🗺️🗃️

People have many opinions about global migration today. In my latest post, I discuss how we can teach contemporary global migration using change & continuity over time 🗺️🗃️

I was looking back at an old post and thinking about what it means to decolonize world history - it’s about both changing WHAT we teach and HOW we teach 🗺️🗃️

New post about teaching 19th century migration that emphasizes the global scope (less emphasis on Euro migration) & significance of migration to modernity 🗺️🗃️ https://www.liberatingnarratives.com/i-left-my-land-to-come-to-demerara/

Regular readers may notice I always spell Afroeurasia without a hyphen. Here's a special public bonus post about the logic of this choice and how we can engage students to reflect on naming conventions. 🗺️🗃️ https://www.liberatingnarratives.com/afroeurasia-not-afro-eurasia/

Lots of folks have been following me and are new to Bluesky, so let me introduce myself. 🧵 I'm Bram Hubbell, and I'm a world historian. I primarily write Liberating Narratives, a newsletter for world history teachers.

this whole post is well worth your time esp if you teach the "scramble for africa" and as always I appreciate @liberatingnarrs.bsky.social's instincts to center student observations e.g. on these maps. "what do you notice?" is undefeated as a kickoff question.

I wrote this week about how we can teach the Middle Passage in the 18th century as the start of modern migration. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/longing-for-...