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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: Sati
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The Natural History of a Chinese Girl
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Mahabodhi Temple
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StoryMapJS: Maps that Tell Stories
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Harvard Physics Department asserts that investigations threaten national security, 1950
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Somoza cartoon
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Short Teaching Module: Grimms' Children's and Household Tales
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Photograph from an Independence Protest, Alexandria, Egypt, 1919
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Tyranny Tremble
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Puerto Rican Needleworkers in a Factory, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1942
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Abuses to Suppress
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Akan Gold-Weight in the Shape of the Sankofa Bird
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The Drunkard
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Louis the Sixteenth, King of France and of Navarre
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Sire, They Are My Sons and My Wife
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