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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.

Long Teaching Module: Economies in Transition in Eastern Europe, 1970-1990
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Gin Lane (1751)
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Official Document, Women's Employment
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Nisa, The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak
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Illustration from The Maqamat of al-Hariri
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A Poem by Victor Hugo (1830)
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Shopping queue in Wrocław
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Ruins of the Convento de San Francisco
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AAAS Defends Edward Condon from HUAC, 1948
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Source Collection: War, Terror, and Resistance to the French Revolution
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Census Protest for Women's Suffrage
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The Gall-Peters Projection
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Misión San Miguel (New Mexico)
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Short Teaching Module: Soviet Health Posters
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Babylonian Map Tablet
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