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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.

John Stuart Mill on the French Revolution
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Cartoon Mocking British Policy toward India, 1788
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Primer: The History of Globalization
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Rajah Rammohun Roy Excerpts
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Iglesia Colonial de Conchagua
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Sorghaghtani Beki and Tolui
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Tyranny Tremble
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Edward Waring on Borax as medicine in India
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Age of Menarche in Norway
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The Half-Male, Half-Female Form of Shiva (Shiva Ardhanarishvara)
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Wooden Triptych
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Mazzini on Revolutionary Nationalism
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Short Teaching Module: Global Microhistory and the Nineteenth-Century Omani Empire
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Mexican Newspaper Reports on American Women Crossing the Border
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Economic Diplomacy in the Caribbean Since the Second World War
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