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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.

SOS Avenir Minguettes President Toumi Djaïdja in Lyon, France
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The Dance of Death
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The Little Cartesian Devil
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Excerpt of Le Fresne
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Wolff’s justification for omitting hay values
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John Stuart Mill on the French Revolution
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Archeological Collection of the Gold Museums
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Cartoon Mocking British Policy toward India, 1788
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Short Teaching Module: A Human History of Commodities
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A Poem by Victor Hugo (1830)
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Short Teaching Module: Slavery, Labor, and Gender
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Captured Africans Liberated from a Slaving Vessel
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Long Teaching Module: Economies in Transition in Eastern Europe, 1970-1990
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Departure of the Three Orders for Versailles
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French Constitution, Rights of Man and Citizen
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