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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.

Yamamoto Shunshō’s The Tale of Genji
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Ancient Courses: Mississippi River Meander Belt
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Tyranny Tremble
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Liberty
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Excerpt from The History of Mary Prince
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Women and Stalinism: Drawing, Old Way of Life
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Departure of the Three Orders for Versailles
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Long Teaching Module: Women in the British Empire, 1800-2000
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The Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de Henares
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The happy life Chairman Mao gave us, 1954
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"The Song of the End": The Whole World Now Chases Him
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Reception of the Envoys from Kandy in Colombo
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Analyzing Inquisition Documents
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Living History by Hillary Clinton
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery:A Transnational Archive
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