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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.

Women and Stalinism: Drawing, Old Way of Life
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Short Teaching Module: Connecting Local and Global History via Mercantile Networks
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Fourteenth-Century Chinese Dragon
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Long Teaching Module: The Collapse of Yugoslavia
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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A letter from U.S. President Andrew Jackson to the Senate Dated Washington, May 30, 1834
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Coin minted by Constantine
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A Continent Divided: The U.S. - Mexico War
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Child Re-enacting Krishna Story
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Photograph from an Independence Protest, Alexandria, Egypt, 1919
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Devshirme System
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Teaching LGBTQ History
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Ijazahs (Diploma)
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Fundraising for Palestinian Families in Jerusalem
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People under the Old Regime
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