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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.

Short Teaching Module: Agricultural Knowledge in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Peter Kropotkin on the Need for Individual Action
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Cecil Rhodes monument removal, Cape Town, South Africa
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Ginger bread recipe
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Ship Plan of a Late-19th Century Steamship
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Short Teaching Module: Nineteenth-Century American Trade on Zanzibar
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Misión Nuestra Señora del Refugio
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Meeting of the Emperors at Tilsit
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The Boy Prodigy: Xiang Tuo
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Analyzing Personal Accounts
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"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday (1939)
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Battle of Aboukir
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The School Journal, 1907 - [Magazine]
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Long Teaching Module: New Zealand Childhoods (18th–20th c.)
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Chive Pocket Watch (Reloj de bolsillo tipo cebollón)
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