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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.

Boke of Chyldren by Thomas Phaer
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The Foreign Relations of the United States Series
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"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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Map of Poverty in Mexico
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Misión San Fernando Rey de España
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Son of Saint–Louis Going Up to Heaven . . .
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A Poem by Victor Hugo (1830)
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Sati Engraving: A Gentoo Woman Burning Herself
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Workers’ Celebration
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Page from Qing Veritable Records
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Construction drawing of a social housing high-rise in Duchère
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World map by Henricus Martellus
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Islamic Carpets
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The Good Sans–Culotte
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Triumph of Napoleon, First Consul
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