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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.

Brazilian Carriage
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Artwork by Calixto Mamaní
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Naval History and Heritage Command
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Primer: Global Urban History
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Cold War Europe Military Alliances Map
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Bronx Schoolyard
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Short Teaching Module: Borderland Migration and Communities in Twentieth-Century West Africa
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Antonio Gramsci: Selections from The Prison Notebooks
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South African Native Affairs Commission report on education
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Outward Cargo Manifest of the Rowena, 1841
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Ideal ration recipe
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"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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Age of Consent Laws
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An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
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Solidarity Election Flier, “How to vote for Solidarity in Żoliborz”
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