Hey everyone, we're doing something a little different for the next few weeks.

We've been thinking a lot about what history is taught in school and how it's taught in school.

Yeah, it's one of the reasons this show even exists.

What we wanted to do was fill in the gaps and reframe the things we learned in history class.

So a few months ago, we started asking teachers for some of their favorite through-line episodes that do just that

and that they liked their students to hear before returning to school.

Our hope was that through-line was of use to teachers and we heard from many of them who said it was.

This week...

Hey, this is a message for through-line.

Hi, this is Elijah Schumacher.

My name's Jeremy Telemann.

I am an AP World History teacher in Amro, Wisconsin.

I'm a professor at Oregon Tech and Clemence Falls, Oregon.

I'm just calling to say that your episode there will be bananas.

It has been used in my class to teach colonialism.

I recently used your episode in my course on sustainable human ecology.

Looking at the history of the fruit and bananas is a great place to start when you go into the store

or why they still fit cheap.

And that's, of course, the legacy of everything you all talked about.

And I find it extremely useful as a tool to teach the unintended or the unrecognized consequences of colonialism.

Thanks for everything you do.

Take care.

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