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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.

Commonwealth of Independent States, Map 1994
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Majalis al-‘ushshak: Gathering in a Mosque
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Analyzing Maps
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Syllabus: Women and Gender in World History, 600-2000
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Uruguayan Jail Cell Door
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Newspaper Report on the Fourth Pan-African Congress Meeting in 1927
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Short Teaching Module: Spatial Histories of Law, Race and Empire
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Solidarity Election Poster, “High Noon, 4 June 1989”
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A Visual Guide to the Cold War
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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture A Native of Africa
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Short Teaching Module: Maya Writing
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The happy life Chairman Mao gave us, 1954
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Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
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Misión San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo
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Economic Diplomacy in the Caribbean Since the Second World War
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