Turning Biology into History: A New Resource for Teaching the Black Death

Medieval Academy Fellow and co-winner of the 2018 Medieval Academy of America/CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching, Monica H. Green, has produced an open-access introductory teaching module for historians and others teaching world, global, or medieval history. Entitled The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, the module draws on the latest genetics science and bioarchaeology to present a new narrative of the late medieval plague pandemic. The module itself will be available sometime around the beginning of September. Available now is this blogpost, which summarizes the genesis of the projects and its key features: https://www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07/14/turning-biology-into-history-a-new-resource-for-teaching-the-black-death/.