Before the school year ended last year, but after the murder of George Floyd, I put together a slide show of 45 minutes for my US History II students that attempted to teach U.S. History from the perspective of people of color. I started with the foundation of the country and ended with James Baldwin's Letter to my Nephew. I described the definition of slavery in Africa and how it was distorted to something entirely different in America.
Before the school year ended last year, but after the murder of George Floyd, I put together a slide show of 45 minutes for my US History II students that attempted to teach U.S. History from the perspective of people of color. I started with the foundation of the country and ended with James Baldwin's Letter to my Nephew. I described the definition of slavery in Africa and how it was distorted to something entirely different in America.
Here is my first attempt at answering (I would love to hear your answers) the question to Linda Morse's thought provoking article, "A Letter to America: Why We Need a New History Education" http://hnn.org/article/176379
Q1. What histories have Americans internalized about people of color and/or women in relation to American exceptionalism and patriarchal systems? Why do any of us believe what we do today? How have history textbooks and history teachers shaped any American’s understanding of the world?
I wonder what readers here would answer to some of the questions asked in this thought provoking article, "A Letter to America:Why We Need a New History Education" by Linda Morse editor of the New England Journal of History http://hnn.org/article/176379
H-Diplo Essay 234
State of the Field>> United States-Iranian Relations
22 May 2020
https://hdiplo.org/to/E234
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H-Diplo Essay No. 148
An H-Diplo State of the Field Essay
Published on 18 July 2017
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State of the Field Essay: Haiti’s Revolution and the Early American Republic
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Essay by Wendy Wong-Schirmer, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
H-Diplo Essay No. 126
An H-Diplo State of the Field Essay
Published on 10 April 2015 to the H-Net Commons, and accurate as of that date
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Commissioned for H-Diplo by Diane Labrosse
“The Problems and Prospects of Diplomatic/International History”[1]
