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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.

Misión San José de Laguna
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San Antonio Convent
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Lady of the Bridge, Tale of Genji Painting Scroll
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Solidarity Election Flier, “How to vote for Solidarity in Żoliborz”
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Child Re-enacting Krishna Story
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Long Teaching Module: Children’s Health in Early Modern England
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Kant, The Contest of Faculties
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Captured Africans Liberated from a Slaving Vessel
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Emmerton Letter, 1926
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Edward Waring on Borax as medicine in India
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The Batavia Castle
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Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
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Mounted Mongol Warriors
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Short Teaching Module: Remembering Tiananmen Square
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Short Teaching Module: History of the Pacific Ocean
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