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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.

Speech in the Garden of the Palais-Royal
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“Big Business Banishes the Flapper"
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Christopher Columbus monument, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Scotland Forever
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Early Modern Ottoman Carpet at the Walters Art Museum
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Advertisement for Sale of Newly Arrived Africans
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People Reading the Gazette
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De Tente en el Aire y Mulata, Albarrasado
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Enslaved and Free Blacks in Saint Domingue
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Maria Tallchief in Dance Magazine, 1961
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Primer: Commodities
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Short Teaching Module: Chinese Propaganda Posters
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Aztec Skull Earring, 16th Century
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Making Peace with the Catholic Church, 1801–2
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W.E.B. DuBois Details the 1919 Pan-African Congress in Newspaper Article
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