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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.

Battle of Aboukir
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Ruins of the Convento de San Francisco
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Selling Toys
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South African Native Affairs Commission report on education
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Slave Coffle, Central Africa, 1861
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Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas
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Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
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Captured Africans Liberated from a Slaving Vessel
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“Tell Negroes To Join With Other Peoples Of The World”
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“Big Business Banishes the Flapper"
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Tomb of General Juan Lavalle
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Yamamoto Shunshō’s The Tale of Genji
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Women’s Work for Woman
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Britain pressures U.S. to revoke citizenship of Indian activist
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Efforts at Controlling Yellow Fever
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