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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.

Market in Southeastern Nigeria
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Long Teaching Module: “Reading” Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
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Scenes from Andrzej Wajda’s film, Man of Iron (1981)
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Castillo de Piria
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Long Teaching Module: Women and Empire
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The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer
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School Population in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Memoirs and Poems of Phillis Wheatley
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Bonaparte, First Consul, Putting Away His Sword after the General Peace
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Lord Kitchener, “Birth of Ghana,” 1957
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Abstention Rate in Napoleonic Plebiscites
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Friendship
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Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie
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Misión San Ildefonso
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Kilwa Map Illustration
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