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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.

"The Problems of Third World Development"
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"On Scarlet Fever"
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Long Teaching Module: Gender and Health in Latin America, 1980-2010
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Cuauhtémoc prisionero
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Long Teaching Module: Nationalities and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1989-2000
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Analyzing Inquisition Documents
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Childhood Obesity in the United States
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Long Teaching Module: Children in the Slave Trade
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Rashid graduates from Oregon Agricultural college, 1908
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Short Teaching Module: Colonialism and Local Power
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History of the Earth in a Cycle
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Short Teaching Module: Children, Culture, and Folktales
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Cold War Europe Military Alliances Map
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Maria Tallchief in Dance Magazine, 1961
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American and Zanzibari Trade Contract, 1841
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