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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: Children and Daguerreotypes (19th c.)
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Long Teaching Module: Everyday Life in Eastern Europe in the 1980s
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The Mode of Exterminating the Black Army as Practised by the French
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Balzac’s The Chouans
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Short Teaching Module: Childhood and Transatlantic Slavery
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Primer: Defining World History
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Post-Soviet Population Table, 2006
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American and Zanzibari Trade Contract, 1841
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Battle For and Taking of Ratisbon, April 23, 1809
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The Foreign Relations of the United States Series
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
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Short Teaching Module: Christianity and Slavery in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1480s-1520s
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Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie
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Javanese Shadow Puppets
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Tobacco Workers
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