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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.

Visualizing Energy:
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The Sugar Mill
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Source Collection: Pennsylvania Newspapers React to Refugees from Haitian Revolution
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Mau Mau Fighters in Scout Uniforms
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A Naval Encounter between Dutch and Spanish Warships
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Photograph of "Principal Chiefs" from West Africa
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey
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Huun-Huur-Tu Throat Singers
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Statistics on Catholicism in Poland after the fall of Communism
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Map of Europe, 1918
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Short Teaching Module: Grimms' Children's and Household Tales
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Misión San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo
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The Good Sans–Culotte
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 4
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Newspaper Report on the Fourth Pan-African Congress Meeting in 1927
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