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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.

Mameluke with a basket of flowers, 1641
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi 2
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De Maistre, Considerations on France
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Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas
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Balzac’s The Chouans
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Mercator Projection, Eurasia Centered
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Living History by Hillary Clinton
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Sati Engraving: A Gentoo Woman Burning Herself
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Solemn Inauguration of the Statue of Liberty
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Louis XVI, King of the French, born 23 August 1754.
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Photograph from an Independence Protest, Alexandria, Egypt, 1919
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Girl Museum
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Source Collection: Evolution of Rights in Saint Domingue
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Removal of the Parlements
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Chinese Troops during the Xinhai Revolution
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