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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: Transnational Efforts at Controlling Yellow Fever
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Map of Land Grant for New Zealand University, 1873
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Ptolemy's World Map
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Long Teaching Module: Nationalities and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1989-2000
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Coca Cola Overseas
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Misión San José y San Miguel de Aguayo
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Jewish Life in America
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The Children of Edward Holden Cruttenden
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The Foreign Travels and Dangerous Voyages of Sir John Mandeville, 14th Century
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Teatro Nacional Cervantes
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Workers’ Celebration
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Census of England, 1891
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Video of Ceausescu’s Last Speech, December 1989
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Video: Indian Boy Scouts at 1929 World Jamboree
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Chinese Migrants to U.S. by way of Mexico
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