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World History Commons

An open educational resource with peer-reviewed content for world and global history teachers, scholars, and students. This website provides more than 1,700 annotated primary sources, 100 teaching guides, 30 overviews of methods and approaches, and 250 website reviews. To learn more, consult this guide to using the site and our video guides for community college settings.

Posada Broadsheet
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Short Teaching Module: Colonialism and Local Power
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African Studies Center
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Short Teaching Module: Connecting the French Empire
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Laws of Manu
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Analyzing Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
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Competitive Journalism
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Remarks on Chinese Character and Customs
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Newspaper report on Eva Peron's Death
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Divorce in the Soviet Union
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Primer: Environmental History
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Ethiopian Healing Scrolls
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Little Women, “The Valley of the Shadow”
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Misión San Francisco de Solano
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Ptolemy's World Map
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