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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.

Day of Saint-Cloud
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Picture of civil rights activist, Djida Tazdaït
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Primer: Big History
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Terakoya vs. Meiji School
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Misión San Miguel (California)
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Louis XVI distributes aid to the Poor
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The Philosophy of History
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Monks Learning to Exercise.
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Bar Miztvah
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Map of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1768
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Misión San Francisco de Asís
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Le Bon, The Psychology of Revolution
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Balclutha
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An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
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Long Teaching Module: Sati
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