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Trading Card Propaganda: Winning Over the Children of the Revolution
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Teotihuacan: The Place Where The Gods Were Born
The Duty of the Hour: The Cuban Revolution Part I
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” – Che Guevara
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Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Atrocities of the Spanish Conquistadors
The Americas: A Free, Open Textbook in Progress
Open Ended Social Studies has the chapters that your world history textbook is missing
What is the root cause of our world’s troubles?
If you ask me, it’s not a trade imbalance or a terrorist threat. If we’re talking about the problem that lies at the heart of everything, it’s got to be a severe, devastating lack of empathy – the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Continue reading “Open Ended Social Studies has the chapters that your world history textbook is missing”
Who made your smartphone? Globalization, raw materials, and slave labor from Potosi to Silicon Valley
Globalization is nothing new – the indigenous peoples slaving away in the Potosi mines 500 years ago could tell you all about it, while Europeans cracked the whip in order to buy Asian-made goods at affordable prices. Add in the fact that the mines were supplied with food and coca by African slaves laboring away in the low lands, and you have a template for the modern integrated global economy – exploitation, unequal rewards, and all. Continue reading “Who made your smartphone? Globalization, raw materials, and slave labor from Potosi to Silicon Valley”
For educators: Create an illustrated glossary of Nahuatl/English loan words
When you’re teaching from many textbooks, it’s easy to think of native societies as “the other” – the Aztec are conquered and swept aside, if they’re mentioned at all, and they appear from the perspective of their conquerors. They didn’t even call themselves the Aztec, for that matter – they referred to themselves as the Mexica, a name lent to the modern nation, and often excluded from your textbooks to prevent confusion between the two among students. Continue reading “For educators: Create an illustrated glossary of Nahuatl/English loan words”
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