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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.

Brazilian Carriage
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“Big Business Banishes the Flapper"
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Speech in the Garden of the Palais-Royal
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Queens Rooftops, Seen From a Subway Platform
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Long Teaching Module: New Zealand Childhoods (18th–20th c.)
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Photographs of the St. Stanisław Kostka Church in Warsaw
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"Resolutely support the just struggle of the American Blacks!" Propaganda Poster, 1963
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Map with Many of the Protests in Puerto Rico and the World 2019
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A gold dinar of Abd al-Malik minted in Damascus in 697/98
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Map of the Range of Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, 1962
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Cartoon about the Ottoman Empire
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry: A Look at History and Popular Culture
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GDP in Yugoslavia: 1980-1989
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Women from Bohemia
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The Huejotzingo Codex of 1531
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