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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.

Women's Union Telegram
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San Ysidro and San Buenaventura de Humanas (Gran Quivira)
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John Smith's Map of Virginia 1624
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Mexican Newspaper Reports on American Women Crossing the Border
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Short Teaching Module: Remembering Tiananmen Square
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Porcelain tankard, fifteenth century China
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Outward Cargo Manifest of the Rowena, 1841
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Photograph of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Activist
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Coin minted by Constantine
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Source Collection: The Ongoing Discovery of the Aksumite Kingdom
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Short Teaching Module: European Maps of the Early Modern World
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Guadeloupean Household Workers at Ellis Island
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"Resolutely support the just struggle of the American Blacks!" Propaganda Poster, 1963
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Huun-Huur-Tu Throat Singers
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Short Teaching Module: Childhood and Transatlantic Slavery
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