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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.

Wearing Gay History
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Commission Hearing Excerpt
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Long Teaching Module: Women in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
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Map of Poverty in Mexico
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Primer: The History of Globalization
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A Poem by Victor Hugo (1830)
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"The Problems of Third World Development"
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The Half-Male, Half-Female Form of Shiva (Shiva Ardhanarishvara)
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Misión San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
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Nuestra Señora de la Bahía del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai
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Misión Nuestra Señora del Refugio
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Economic Declaration of Nonaligned Countries
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From John Bartholomew, Literary and historical atlas of America
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Buddha Sheltered by a Naga
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