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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.

Letter to Panduranga Joshi Kulkarni
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Tree Rings as Climate Archive
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey
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Festival of National Unity, 14 July 1939
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Short Teaching Module: Children and Daguerreotypes (19th c.)
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Islamic Carpets
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Source Collection: Paris and the Politics of Rebellion
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Short Teaching Module: Grimms' Children's and Household Tales
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Speech in the Garden of the Palais-Royal
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Official Document, Police Letter
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Chamber of Commerce Newspaper from Guangzhouwan, China
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World Light Map
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Captured Africans Liberated from a Slaving Vessel
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The mayor of Lyon, France drives a bulldozer to initiate construction of social housing
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The Executive Abroad
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