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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.

Photographs of the St. Stanisław Kostka Church in Warsaw
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Devshirme System
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Javanese Shadow Puppets
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Legislative Palace of Uruguay
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Excerpt from The History of Mary Prince
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 2
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Temple of Vespasian altar
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Plan for the City of Moscow
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Sword of Sieyès
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The World: Map of N. & S. America
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Malleus Maleficarum, Witch Hunter Manual
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Antonio Gramsci: Selections from The Prison Notebooks
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India’s Cries to British Humanity
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Chinese Troops during the Xinhai Revolution
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Missionary Journal, Chinese Culture
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