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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.

Tree Rings as Climate Archive
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Post-Soviet Population Table, 2006
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Picture of civil rights activist, Djida Tazdaït
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Misión San José de los Jémez
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Early Modern Counter
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Beautiful Fatima
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Letter to Council Women
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Dona Marina, Cortes’ Translator: Painting, Santa Barraza
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Efforts at Controlling Yellow Fever
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Through Me You Are All Brothers
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Old Mission San Buenaventura
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Sati Engraving: A Gentoo Woman Burning Herself
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Ottoman Reform Decree, 1856
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Congress of Vienna
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Nuestra Señora de Purísima Concepción de Quarai
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