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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.

Japanese Mercenaries and the Dutch East India Company
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Christopher Columbus monument, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Primer: A Global History of Higher Education
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Shiva as the Lord of Dance
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Needing Assistance, 1864
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Economic Declaration of Nonaligned Countries
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Source Collection: Pan-Africanism, Anticolonialism and Addressing the Problem of the Global Color Line in the 20th Century
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Battle of Aboukir
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Charles Fourier on the Revolution
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Analyzing Personal Accounts
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Misión San Cayetano de Tumacácori
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Louis the Sixteenth, King of France and of Navarre
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Tomoe Gozen
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Short Teaching Module: Global Microhistory and the Nineteenth-Century Omani Empire
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Chinese Troops during the Xinhai Revolution
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