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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.

Map of the Partition of Israel and Palestine
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The Battle of Waterloo as Seen by an Ordinary British Cavalryman
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Emmerton Letter, 1926
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Photograph of "Principal Chiefs" from West Africa
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Mummified Inca Child Sacrifices
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Meiji Era School Attendence
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Protect the Great Results of the Cultural Revolution, 1974
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
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Joyous Celebration at the New Year
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Southern Manchuria Railway (1906-1945)
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Meroitic Script
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Harvard Physics Department asserts that investigations threaten national security, 1950
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Shopping queue in Wrocław
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“Tell Negroes To Join With Other Peoples Of The World”
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Commonwealth of Independent States, Map 1994
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