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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.

Crucifix (Nkangi Kiditu)
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BaAka Women Dancing the Hunting Dance, Ndambo
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A Hindu Princess Committing Sati against the Wishes of Emperor Akbar
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Portrait of General Artigas
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Leon Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution
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The True Woman
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Catharina Schrader
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Primer: Comparative History
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Pathfinder Warrant
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Germaine de Staël, A French Writer Exiled by Napoleon
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Mapping the Republic of Letters
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Needing Assistance, 1864
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Edifying and curious letters of some Missioners of the Society of Jesus from foreign missions
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Analyzing Photographs
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The Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de Henares
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