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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.

Short Teaching Module: Sick Men in Mid-Nineteenth-Century International Relations
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Malinche Sculpture
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Women Writers Project
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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Kant, The Contest of Faculties
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Louis XVI distributes aid to the Poor
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Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis
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Video: Indian Boy Scouts at 1929 World Jamboree
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Long Teaching Module: Exploring Empire through the Lens of Childhood and Gender
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Through Me You Are All Brothers
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Tear Down this Wall
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Ancient Courses: Mississippi River Meander Belt
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Excerpt from "A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689"
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Women and Stalinism: Drawing, Old Way of Life
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Speech in the Garden of the Palais-Royal
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