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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.

Ha’amonga ‘a Maui in Tonga
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Joyous Celebration at the New Year
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Babylonian Map Tablet
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A Naval Encounter between Dutch and Spanish Warships
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Lord Ismay Notice Regarding Indian Partition
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Abstention Rate in Napoleonic Plebiscites
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Rockefeller Foundation Report Concerning the Yellow Fever Vaccine
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Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del Socorro
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1841 Letter from Atkins Hamerton
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Foot Binding
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Memoirs and Poems of Phillis Wheatley
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The Exorcism: Ridding France of the Devil Napoleon
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The Taoist Priest of Lao-Shan
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Emmerton Letter, 1926
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Excerpt from The History of Mary Prince
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