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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.

Hicky's Bengal Gazette
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Short Teaching Module: Borderland Migration and Communities in Twentieth-Century West Africa
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The Forced Migration of Enslaved People
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Child Re-enacting Krishna Story
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Ship
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Social Capital in World History: Lyon and Pittsburgh as Examples
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Women and Stalinism: Drawing, Old Way of Life
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Short Teaching Module: The Nonaligned Movement and Cold War Détente
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Meiji Japan
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Treaties Between the VOC and the Spice Islands
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Glikl
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The Great Heroism of the Nineteenth Century
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Britain pressures U.S. to revoke citizenship of Indian activist
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The Dream of Malinche
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Least Cost Pathway Analysis Showing Movement Across a Landscape
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