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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.

Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Teaching Central America
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Long Teaching Module: Women in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
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Festival of National Unity, 14 July 1939
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Short Teaching Module: Florence Farmborough and the Russian Front, 1914-1918
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Speech by U.S. Civil Rights Leader Robert Williams, 1966
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Cueva de los Manos, Rio Pinturas
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Olympic Games Poster, Stockholm, 1912.
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Harvard Physics Department asserts that investigations threaten national security, 1950
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Wooden Stockade on Penang Island, 18th century
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Malinche Sculpture
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Long Teaching Module: Women and the Puerto Rican Labor Movement
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Lapita Pottery from the Santa Cruz Islands
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World History Encyclopedia
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Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
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