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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.

Festival of National Unity, 14 July 1939
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Drug Abuse is Suicide
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Diapers
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Adding and Subtracting with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Sire, They Are My Sons and My Wife
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Memoirs and Poems of Phillis Wheatley
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Construction drawing of a social housing high-rise in Duchère
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Tomoe Gozen
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“Contraste” by Joaquín Torres García
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Devshirme System
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Connections and the Long Cold War in Nicaragua
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"The Song of the End": The Whole World Now Chases Him
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Division with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Short Teaching Module: Global Approaches to Maritime Trade in Colonial North America
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Zoomorphic Figure from Papua New Guinea
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