Covering 500 years of history in one semester is no small task. Inevitably, loads of content must be left on the cutting room floor. This page is dedicated to teaching materials that might be considered for optional, extra-credit, or in-class use–short readings as well as audio, video, and interactive websites.

Video

“‘Counter-Revolution of 1776’: Was U.S. Independence War a Conservative Result in Favor of Slavery,” Democracy Now!, June 27, 2014 [start at 37:29]

“How Britain Got China Hooked on Opium,” Vice News, August 28, 2020

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Path to Nazi Genocide, January 2014

Ousmane Sembène, Black Girl, 1966

Emma Francis-Snyder, “Takeover: How We Occupied a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care,” New York Times Op-Docs, October 12, 2021

The Revolution Will Note Be Televised, 2003

Audio

“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Fritz Haber?,” Radiolab, January 9, 2012

“Mau Mau,” Radiolab, July 3, 2015

Websites

Slave Voyages–an archive of digitized, publicly accessible slave trade records covering the transatlantic and inter-American trade

Chinese Civil War Diplomatic Primary Sources, Wilson Center Digital Archive

Readings

“A Short History of Enclosure in Britain,” The Land 7 (Summer 2009)

Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt [excerpt], New Frame, June 24, 2020

Laurent Dubois, “Why Haiti Should Be at the Centre of the Age of Revolution,” Aeon, November 7, 2016

Jathan Sadowski, “I’m a Luddite. You Should Be One Too,” The Conversation, August 9, 2021

Ariel Knobel, “For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression,” Atlas Obscura, November 22, 2018

Julie Greene, “Movable Empire,” Jacobin https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/panama-canal-migrant-labor-empire