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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.

Ark (Wooden Chest with Iron Locks)
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Mercator Projection
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Seeking to Avoid Military Service, 1865
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Louis Leaves His Family
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Panelaks and Housing Estates
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Chinese Troops during the Xinhai Revolution
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Map of the Outskirts of Mexico City
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Edifying and curious letters of some Missioners of the Society of Jesus from foreign missions
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Auction
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Bronx Schoolyard
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Long Teaching Module: Border Changes of the Soviet Union
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Studying for the mother country, 1986
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Leon Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution
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The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer
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Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980
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