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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.

Economic Declaration of Nonaligned Countries
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His Monument: Napoleon's Past and Future Are FIlled With Dead Bodies
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Needing Assistance, 1864
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Adding and Subtracting with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Tear Down this Wall
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Analyzing Maps
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Short Teaching Module: Precolonial Kenya, a Small-Scale History
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School Population in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Egyptian Mummy Coffin
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Source Collection: Korean Colonial-Era Children’s Literature
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Life Histories (Chile) Table
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Printing Press
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An Ottoman “Bill of Rights”
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Portrait of Carlota Ferreira
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Primer: Big History
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