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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.

Ship Plan of a Late-19th Century Steamship
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Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves
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Kodak Advertisement
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Pound Homestead
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Long Teaching Module: Gender and Health in Latin America, 1980-2010
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Copra Production in the Dutch East Indies
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Nautical Chart, 1385
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An Ottoman “Bill of Rights”
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Louis XVI and His Family (20 January 1793)
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Primer: Borderlands History
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Silent Film Sheet Music
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Leon Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution
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Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate
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"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday (1939)
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Torture in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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