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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.

Maria Tallchief in Dance Magazine, 1961
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Photograph, Needleworker
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Germaine de Staël, A French Writer Exiled by Napoleon
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Visualizing Energy:
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Short Teaching Module: The Nonaligned Movement and Cold War Détente
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Uruguayan Jail Cell Door
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Edifying and curious letters of some Missioners of the Society of Jesus from foreign missions
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A gold dinar of Abd al-Malik minted in Damascus in 697/98
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Maya Drinking Vessel with Seated Lord, 7th-8th century
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Cecil Rhodes monument, Cape Town, South Africa
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Newspaper Article Promoting the Pan-African Congress
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Mexico Cartoon, 1846
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Little Women, "Amy's Valley of Humiliation"
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Map of the Philippines, 1734
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Letter to Panduranga Joshi Kulkarni
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