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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.

HMM Algeciras
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Source Collection: The Enlightenment and Human Rights
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Short Teaching Module: Indian Immigrants and U.S. Citizenship in an Imperial Context
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The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer
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Hangzhou elites in 1935
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Efforts at Controlling Yellow Fever
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Vending Machine
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Japanese Mercenaries and the Dutch East India Company
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present
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“Africae Novo” Map
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Burning the Guardhouse on the Pont Neuf
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Speech by U.S. Civil Rights Leader Robert Williams, 1966
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Javanese Shadow Puppets
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African Studies Center
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Misión San Juan Capistrano (California)
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