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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.

National World War II Museum
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Tags and Throws on a SoHo Side Street
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Grid Map of Judicial Independence
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Charles Fourier on the Revolution
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Short Teaching Module: Chinese Propaganda Posters
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Primer: Commodities
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Bird Stone Figure from Papua New Guinea
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Short Teaching Module: Orphans and Colonialism (17th c.)
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Solidarity Election Poster, “High Noon, 4 June 1989”
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Market in Southeastern Nigeria
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The Gall-Peters Projection
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“The South African College and Its ‘Old Boys,’” 1886
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Connections and the Long Cold War in Nicaragua
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Statistics on Polish Catholicism in the Communist Era
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Letter to Council Women
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