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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.

Two Girls Carrying Children
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The Turin Beatus Map of the World
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The Mode of Exterminating the Black Army as Practised by the French
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi
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The Washington Post Announces Eisenhower's Reelection
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Tags and Throws on a SoHo Side Street
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Japanese Mercenaries in Early Modern Southeast Asia
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Lord Ismay Notice Regarding Indian Partition
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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Bonaparte and Islam
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"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday (1939)
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Misión San Miguel (New Mexico)
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Short Teaching Module: Business History and Multilocal Approaches to World History
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Pound Homestead
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The Third Estate Marrying Priests with Nuns
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