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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.

Showa Steelworks in Anshan (Northeast China)
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Short Teaching Module: Colonialism and Local Power
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Division with an Early Modern Counting Board
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A Grateful France Proclaims Napoleon the First Emperor of the Frence
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Olympic Games Poster, Stockholm, 1912.
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Memoirs and Poems of Phillis Wheatley
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Sewing Classes at Mount Margaret Mission
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Portrait of Carlota Ferreira
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"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday (1939)
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Tyranny Tremble
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Commonwealth of Independent States, Map 1994
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Charles Fourier on the Revolution
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Female Terracotta Figure
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Mijikenda textiles
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Pathfinder Warrant
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