Humanizing History

This week, Humanizing History? is examining a scientific innovation that emerged in the Americas –– a dynamic topic that’s often overlooked in school curricula, especially in the United States. To expand the narrative, we unravel the remarkable story of corn. If you missed the newsletter, you can read it on our website: https://lnkd.in/edVhHQ_n Be sure to subscribe (on our website, link in comments) so you receive this week's special send on how to reframe the story of Squanto and Thanksgiving.

Across time and place, human beings have developed countless innovations. We’ve mapped the nighttime skies, navigated oceans, built trade networks, and carved our own kind of art. However, all too often we learn a slim, limited perspective of world history. In last week’s Humanizing History? newsletter, we discussed an antiracist way to expand what and how we teach history –– through the lens of geography. In this video, we briefly explain our antiracist approach. For more information about this topic and other content from Humanizing History?, visit our website and subscribe to our free weekly newsletter at humanizinghistory.org

Our first newsletter just dropped, "'Civilization Does Not Equal 'More Civilized.'" We wrote it because world history is often taught in limited ways that reinforce a false, human hierarchy. The lens of geography, however, can help us create a more humanizing, facts-based, non-hierarchical narrative. If you missed the newsletter, you can read it on our website: https://lnkd.in/eB2B4j9x Be sure to subscribe (on our website, link in comments) in time for next week's newsletter, where we'll examine the incredible human hands that – for thousands of years – cultivated corn, from a wild grass called teosinte. A plant that required and underwent the most change of any crop in all of history, corn shaped the timeline for sedentary societies and empires in the Americas, just as much as Indigenous people shaped corn itself.

Few things are as important as how we tell the human story – the version we tell ourselves, how we view others, and especially the one we teach to children. Learning hidden facts, narratives, and an antiracist framing of World and U.S. history can create a more humanizing story. Subscribe today for our first newsletter send tomorrow! ?? https://lnkd.in/eJjmraab

?? Our first Humanizing History? newsletter drops on Tuesday, November 12th. ?? This month's theme is "Land Shapes People and People Shape Land." We'll start by exploring how using the lens of geography can be an antiracist tool when learning about world history, early "civilizations," and innovations across time and place. ?? We'll later examine the miraculous development of an Indigenous food that impacted the world: corn. And for a special Thanksgiving send, we'll take a closer look at the life of Squanto, or Tisquantum, to expand how we tell his story, so we may center his humanity and nuance. Be sure to subscribe: humanizinghistory.org Consider sharing this with a friend, educator, or family member who may be interested. Thank you!

Humanizing History? is a pending 501(c)(3) nonprofit, providing free social studies resources for educators and families. Through compelling, multiracial, facts-based narratives, Humanizing History? inspires and empowers educators and families who want to talk to kids about race, culture, and our collective human story — in ways that debunk stereotypes and enhance empathy and connection. Sign up for Humanizing History? & every Tuesday we’ll send you a newsletter.? Every month, our newsletters will have a specific theme (i.e., “Land Shapes People & People Shape Land”). Join our growing community, so you too can expand how you tell the human story.