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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.

The Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday
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Speech in the Garden of the Palais-Royal
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"Resolutely support the just struggle of the American Blacks!" Propaganda Poster, 1963
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The Scout's and King's African Rifles Uniforms
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Renunciation case against Gertrudis de Escobar, Mexico, 1659
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Mesoamerican Pictogram
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People Reading the Gazette
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Mission San Xavier del Bac
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Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas
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Swaddled Children Terra Cotta Bas-Reliefs
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Decameron
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Puerto Rican Needleworkers in a Factory, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1942
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The Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de Henares
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From John Bartholomew, Literary and historical atlas of America
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Gender Roles among the Nahua in the Codex Mendoza
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