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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.

“Tell Negroes To Join With Other Peoples Of The World”
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A Grateful France Proclaims Napoleon the First Emperor of the Frence
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Shell Pendant or Bead from Ecuador
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Germaine de Staël, A French Writer Exiled by Napoleon
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Abuses to Suppress
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Hakluyt's The Principall Investigations
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Gin Lane (1751)
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Primer: Rewriting of Sub-Saharan African History
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Solemn Inauguration of the Statue of Liberty
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French Constitution, Rights of Man and Citizen
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Source Collection: Analyzing Historic Churches in the Southwestern US
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Primer: The History of Globalization
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"We can stop this Makapuu madness!"
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Wearing Gay History
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Activity: Material Culture and Childhood (20th c.)
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