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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: Chinese Propaganda Posters
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"Resolutely support the just struggle of the American Blacks!" Propaganda Poster, 1963
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Sorghaghtani Beki and Tolui
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Primer: Comparative History
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Porcelain tankard, fifteenth century China
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Video: March of Flags from 1929 Boy Scout World Jamboree
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Mesoamerican Pictogram
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Photograph of Fatima the Moroccan
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Francois Guilbeau letter on Loredo trade
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Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque
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1919 Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum Annual Report
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Wooden Triptych
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BaAka Women Dancing the Hunting Dance, Ndambo
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Kodak Advertisement
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Bonaparte Visiting the Hospital in Jaffa
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