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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.

Scotland Forever
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Queens Rooftops, Seen From a Subway Platform
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Frontispiece of Sir Thomas Roe
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Catharina Schrader
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The Saving of France
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A Visual Guide to the Cold War
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Primer: Big History
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Olympic Games Poster, Stockholm, 1912.
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Enslaved and Free Blacks in Saint Domingue
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Triumph of Napoleon, First Consul
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Tracing Canoe Pathways in the Lesser Antilles, 2000 BE - 400 BC
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Mexicana: A Repository of Cultural Patrimony in Mexico
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Rivalry Between English and Dutch East India Companies
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"On Scarlet Fever"
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Women Writers Project
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