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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.

Bonaparte and Islam
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Analyzing Primary Sources on Women in World History
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Short Teaching Module: Agricultural Knowledge in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Map of Poverty in Mexico
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Naval History and Heritage Command
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Letter to Panduranga Joshi Kulkarni
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Suffrage Atelier Postcard, 1909
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Indian textile fragment, 14th-15th century
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Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del Socorro
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World map by Henricus Martellus
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Short Teaching Module: Teaching the Intersection of Gender and Race through Colonial Medical Texts
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Portrait of Gaspar Sánchez
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Bonaparte Visiting the Hospital in Jaffa
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French Constitution, Rights of Man and Citizen
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"Yellow fever in Dakar – There is no epidemic"
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