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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.

A Poem by Victor Hugo (1830)
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Gin Lane (1751)
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“Big Business Banishes the Flapper"
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Little Women, “The Valley of the Shadow”
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Toys
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Balclutha
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The Mercator Projection
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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John Stuart Mill on the French Revolution
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Femmes Nicaragua
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Misión San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo
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Festival of Supreme Being
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Gold Solidus of Justinian I (527–65)
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Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del Socorro
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M. Cornelius Statius
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