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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.

Scenes from Andrzej Wajda’s film, Man of Iron (1981)
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Long Teaching Module: Nationalities and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1989-2000
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Map with Many of the Protests in Puerto Rico and the World 2019
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Lapita Pottery from the Santa Cruz Islands
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The 33 Orientales
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Letter to Panduranga Joshi Kulkarni
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Removal of the Parlements
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The French Nation Defeats Despotism
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Lisbon Port Entry List for Colonial American Ships, 1771
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Ship
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Long Teaching Module: Gender and Health in Latin America, 1980-2010
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Indian textile fragment, 14th-15th century
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Misión San Francisco de Asís (California)
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Edward Waring on Borax as medicine in India
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Short Teaching Module: Colonialism and Local Power
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