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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.

Commission Hearing Excerpt
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Early Modern Dutch and English Propaganda
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The Taoist Priest of Lao-Shan
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Germaine de Staël, A French Writer Exiled by Napoleon
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Short Teaching Module: Florence Farmborough and the Russian Front, 1914-1918
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Small Terracotta Male
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Ship Plan of a Late-19th Century Steamship
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America Invertida (Inverted America)
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Short Teaching Module: Translation and a World History of the Qing Empire
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The Good Sans–Culotte
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Romania and Its Neighbors
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi 2
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Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate
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John Smith's Map of Virginia 1624
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Short Teaching Module: Graffiti, Gender, and Youth (20th c.)
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