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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.

Sire, They Are My Sons and My Wife
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Germaine de Staël, A French Writer Exiled by Napoleon
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Long Teaching Module: Women in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
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Misión Santa Clara de Asís
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"The Problems of Third World Development"
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Oath of the New Horaces
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Emmerton Letter, 1926
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Indian textile fragment, 14th-15th century
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Map of the Outskirts of Mexico City
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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Long Teaching Module: Nationalities and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1989-2000
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The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer
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Claude Antoine Rozet Paintings
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The Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de Henares
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Norma Rae: Depicting Women's Labor History through Film
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