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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.

Long Teaching Module: Women and the Puerto Rican Labor Movement
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Map with Many of the Protests in Puerto Rico and the World 2019
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Middle Ages for Educators
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The Third Estate Marrying Priests with Nuns
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Africae tabula noua
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"Yellow fever in Dakar – There is no epidemic"
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Cortés Greets Xicotencatl in Mexican Manuscript
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OECS Treaty Publication Fragments
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Little Women, "Amy's Valley of Humiliation"
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Photograph from an Independence Protest, Alexandria, Egypt, 1919
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Page from the Pentaglot Manchu Glossary
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Portrait of Hernán Cortés
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The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer
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Ottoman Reform Decree, 1856
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Ethiopian Healing Scrolls
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