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The opening paragraph should be on the mind of everyone who teaches American history: In the 1780s, Mexico City was "hemisphere's leading center of population and power"; future Haiti its sugar plantation nexus; emerging USA built on slavery.
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What if we taught history not as a biography of the nation-state but as rising and sinking constellations of power, circulation, domination, resistance, inspiration, collaboration.
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Which stories of the past have we failed to pass on? Which can we revive here and now?
