U.S. is a fuck

resources for teaching high school U.S. history

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we ended with a discussion of where all the money went, given that it didn't go to the dispossessed: taxes to Dutch and U.S. states, infrastructure in metropoles, owners and investors big and small, and, not least, white workers from akron factories to manhattan ad agencies

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unbelievable primary document for teaching U.S. industry and imperialism https://t.co/lKUCgLHj4q

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they raised their hands and had a lot to say on the use-value vs. exchange value of the land, the simultaneous admission and erasure of colonial violence and indigenous resistance, and the depiction of indigenous life before and after the plantation.

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my students seem to get it pretty quickly, and come to think of various forms of biological warfare as a central feature of settler colonialism

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biological warfare via sexual violence -- from david stannard, *before the horror: the population of hawaii on the eve of western contact* (1989)

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we revisit and critique this argument at almost every point and place of contact, in myriad ways, making smallpox blankets a sort of synecdoche, or a mere type instead of archetype.

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plus info on individual slave ships

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animated interactive timeline of atlantic slave trade https://t.co/wllkCm3wIc

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