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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: European Maps of the Early Modern World
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Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Misión Nuestra Señora del Refugio
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Little Women, “The Valley of the Shadow”
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Stonewall Jackson monument, Richmond, Virginia, United States
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The Children of Edward Holden Cruttenden
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Long Teaching Module: Nationalities and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1989-2000
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Hangzhou elites in 1935
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Japanese Mercenaries in Early Modern Southeast Asia
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Thomas Jefferson on the French Revolution
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Long Teaching Module: The Romanian Revolution of 1989
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Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
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Nok Terracotta Sculptures
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Quebec Order, 7 July 1796
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The Drunkard
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