Teaching Resources

Acknowledging the importance of primary and secondary education, I have been very consciously trying to engage a broad public--particularly, middle school and high school students--in Haitian history. Some of the lessons I have developed for use in the classroom can be found below. As I tell my own students, every month is black history month.

VIDEOS

OER Project: Haitian Revolution (Video and questions)

Ted-Ed: Henry Christophe (Video)

Independence or Death - The Haitian Revolution (Documentary)

C-Span Lectures in History: Henry Christophe and the 1791 Haitian Revolution (Classroom Lecture)

PODCASTS

You're Dead to Me podcast (BBC Sounds) episode on the Haitian Revolution (August 2020)

Napoleon and the Caribbean (C19 podcast with Grégory Pierrot)

ESSAYS/ASSIGNMENTS

“Teaching Hayti: The Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere” (Essay and assignments)

"Teaching Perspective: The Relation between the Haitian and French Revolutions," (Essay on pedagogy)

Ted-Ed: Haiti and the Indemnity (assignment)

“Independence or Death: The Haitian Revolution (1791).” The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained. London: Penguin Random House. 182-89. (Textbook contribution)

DIGITAL RESOURCES

The Haitian Atlantic: A Literary Geography (Story Map)

La Gazette Royale:  A Digital Journey Through Haiti's Early Print Culture (Digital Humanities Project)
The La Gazette Royale digital archive was recently given Honorable Mention for the 2019 Garfinkel Prize in the Digital Humanities awarded by the American Studies Association (ASA). The site, which was launched in April 2017, is designed to gather together and in one place for the first time all of the known issues of the two newspapers published during Henry Christophe’s rule of northern Haiti, as well as the six different versions of the Almanach Royal d’Hayti issued by the royal press. The most comprehensive collection of La Gazette Officielle de l’état d’Hayti and La Gazette Royale d’Hayti to appear in a single repository, there are 95 separate issues gathered on this website. They have been collected from archives located around the Atlantic world, including France, Haiti, England, Ireland, Denmark, and more than a half dozen U.S. states. This project is not solely designed to be an archive of these materials, however. It also proposes to take visitors on a digital journal through Haiti’s early print culture by providing brief descriptions and commentaries to accompany each publication. Some of these entries may provide summaries of specific articles featured in that week’s newspaper; others, call our attention to important concurrent historical circumstances; and still others point out significant individuals, laws, literary elements, or changes of print format that might help guide readers in their own exploration of these remarkable documents.

Contact
marlene.daut[at]yale.edu