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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.

Academy Museum
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Celebrating Napoleon's Birthday on the Island of St. Helena
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Short Teaching Module: A Human History of Commodities
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Devshirme System
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Source Collection: Pennsylvania Newspapers React to Refugees from Haitian Revolution
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Apolitical Intellectuals/ Intelectuales ApolĂ­ticos
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The Great Man
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Chinese Junk, early 18th century
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Children and Daguerreotypes
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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San Ysidro and San Buenaventura de Humanas (Gran Quivira)
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Analyzing Inquisition Documents
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Economic Declaration of Nonaligned Countries
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Foot Binding
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"We can stop this Makapuu madness!"
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