The Origin of Racism (1415)
Video: “The Origin of Race in the USA” (PBS, 5 min)
Article:“Race: The Power of an Illusion” (California Newsreel)
Book: “How to Be a (Young) Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi & Nic Stone
Interactive site: Smithsonian – Talking About Race

The Doctrine of Discovery (1452)
Short video: “Doctrine of Discovery – National Museum of the American Indian (YouTube) (search “Doctrine of Discovery” on their channel)
Primary Source: Excerpts from Dum Diversas (1452) and Inter Caetera (1493)
Website: Doctrine of Discovery Project – Indigenous Values Initiative
Book: “Unsettling Truths” by Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah

Columbus and the Spanish Invasion (1492)
Short film: “Reconsider Columbus Day” (5 min, Native Perspectives)
Map: “1492 Columbus Voyage Route” (Library of Congress)
Primary Source: Excerpts from Columbus’s journal (1492)
Book: “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The Great Dying (1492-1610)
Article: “The Great Dying: How Disease Changed the Americas” (BBC Earth)
Map: Massive Population Drop Found for Native Americans – DNA Shows  (National Geographic)
Video: Surviving New England’s Great Dying – PBS (closest available PBS video on this topic)
Book: “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus” by Charles C. Mann

The Transatlantic Slave Trade (1502-1860)
Interactive map: “The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database” (slavevoyages.org)
Video: NMAAHC – The Middle Passage (YouTube Channel) (search “Middle Passage” on their channel)
Report: EJI – Transatlantic Slave Trade: Origins
Primary Source: “Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative” (1789)
Book: “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Mercantilism and Colonialism (1503-1860)
Video: “Mercantilism Explained” (Khan Academy, 8 min)
Map: Trade & Mercantilism – Library of Congress Research Guide
Primary Source: “Excerpts from Thomas Mun’s England’s Treasure” by Forraign Trade (1664)
Book: “A People’s History for the Classroom” by Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson – Zinn Education Project
Article: “Mercantilism and Colonial Expansion”

Enriquillo’s Revolt (1519-1533)
Video: “Enriquillo: The Taino Prince Who Defied the Spanish Empire”
Primary Source: The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America
Article: Enriquillo: The Fearless Cacique Who Resisted Colonialism – The History Snippets
Guardian of the Baoruco”
Map: Library of Congress Maps Collection (search “Hispaniola 16th century”)
Book: “Enriquillo” by Manuel de Jesús Galván – Internet Archive

The Triangular Trade (1571)
Interactive map: “The Columbian Exchange – Khan Academy” (Khan Academy)
Video: “The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course World History #23” -YouTube
Book: “Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind” by Henry Hobhouse
Primary Source: Archivo General de Indias – Digital Collections (PARES)

Company States (1600-1874)
Video: “The East India Company Explained” (BBC Teach, 6 min)
Primary Source: “Charters of the East India Company 1600–1761 – Internet Archive
Article: “Dutch East India Company” – Britannica Kids (the specific NatGeo Kids article couldn’t be confirmed)
Map: “Global trading routes of the VOC” (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Book: “The Anarchy” by William Dalrymple (adapted excerpts for classrooms available online)

“Society” vs. “Nature” (1641)
Video: Where Does Your Mind Reside? – Crash Course Philosophy #22 (YouTube) (closest Crash Course episode on Descartes and mind/nature dualism)
Reading: “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer – Milkweed Editions (chapter excerpts on Indigenous worldview)
Article: After Thousands of Years, Western Science Is Slowly Catching Up to Indigenous Knowledge – YES! Magazine
Primary Source: “Discourse on Method” (1637) by René Descartes – Project Gutenberg
Lesson idea: Compare Descartes with Indigenous ecological knowledge

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