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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.

Short Teaching Module: Florence Farmborough and the Russian Front, 1914-1918
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Women and Stalinism: Drawing, Old Way of Life
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Source Collection: Women and the Revolution
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The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
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Mexico Cartoon, 1846
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Short Teaching Module: Early Modern Islamic Carpets as Transcultural Objects
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The Foreign Travels and Dangerous Voyages of Sir John Mandeville, 14th Century
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Long Teaching Module: Sati
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Map of the Range of Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, 1962
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Sanitarium Weet-Bix Packet
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History of Pre-Modern Math
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Short Teaching Module: Soviet Health Posters
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Lady of the Bridge, Tale of Genji Painting Scroll
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Louis Leaves His Family
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Short Teaching Module: Girlhood and Little Women
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