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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.

Battle For and Taking of Ratisbon, April 23, 1809
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Germaine de Staël, A French Writer Exiled by Napoleon
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Egyptian Mummy Coffin
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The Huejotzingo Codex of 1531
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Mausoleum of José de San Martín
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Short Teaching Module: Florence Farmborough and the Russian Front, 1914-1918
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Death Mask of Pancho Villa
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Long Teaching Module: The Catholic Church in Poland, 1950-2000
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Chinese Migrants to U.S. by way of Mexico
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The Half-Male, Half-Female Form of Shiva (Shiva Ardhanarishvara)
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Alexis de Tocqueville on the French Revolution
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Rashid graduates from Oregon Agricultural college, 1908
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Manifest Record from the S.S. Atenas
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Short Teaching Module: Children, Culture, and Folktales
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Chamber of Commerce Newspaper from Guangzhouwan, China
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