Teaching

Jacqueline Grant

Ariadne - A 19th Century Cuban Plantation

On a clear March day in 1851, on the Cuban sugar plantation called Ariadne, a dance took place. According to the Swedish woman who later...

Jacqueline Grant

The Not-So-Sweet History of Caribbean Sugar

In 1492, when the Spaniards first sailed into the waters of the Caribbean, they not only encountered people and places they did not know...

Jacqueline Grant

Peek Inside Columbus's Diary

The actual journal written by Christopher Columbus has been lost. What we have is a copy made in the sixteenth century by the friar...

Jacqueline Grant

Columbus and the Capitulation of Granada

I use this image as an opening activity in my class because of the interesting connections it allows my students to make. It gives them a...

Jacqueline Grant

A Word About Time

For many, many years (as far back as the Middle Ages) when historians and other scholars wrote of specific periods in history, they would...

Jacqueline Grant

A Pre-Columbian Travel Destination

Have you ever wondered where the people who were living in the Caribbean islands when Christopher Columbus arrived came from? Long before...