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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.

Page from the Pentaglot Manchu Glossary
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Soviet Map, 1982
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Uruguayan Jail Cell Door
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Misión San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
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Bill of Lading of a ship from Piscataqua to Bilbao in Spain, 1721
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Illustration from The Maqamat of al-Hariri
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Short Teaching Module: Codex Mendoza (16th c.)
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London Newspaper
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Meiji Japan
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Sati Engraving: A Gentoo Woman Burning Herself
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Cartoon Mocking British Policy toward India, 1788
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Louis XVI
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The Emperor and the Imperial Guard on the Island of Elba
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"The Problems of Third World Development"
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Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980
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