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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.

Quilted bedcover of Elisabeth Chapman
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 3
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Long Teaching Module: Children in Ancient China
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Short Teaching Module: The Nonaligned Movement and Cold War Détente
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Louis XVI, King of the French, born 23 August 1754.
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Illustration from The Maqamat of al-Hariri
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The 33 Orientales
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Mexican Newspaper Reports on American Women Crossing the Border
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Excavation at Çatalhöyük, Turkey
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Ideal ration recipe
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Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
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The Squirt Gun
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Mazzini on Revolutionary Nationalism
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A Mother's Power
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Tu'i Tonga Empire Map
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