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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.

South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
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Edward Waring on Assafœtida as medicine in India
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The Royal and Imperial Family of Napoleon
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The Little Cartesian Devil
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Seeking to Avoid Military Service, 1865
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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Misión San José de los Jémez
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An Ottoman “Bill of Rights”
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Louis as No More Than a Man
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Map of the Outskirts of Mexico City
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World map by Henricus Martellus
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Islamic Carpet made in Ottoman Turkey at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Little Women, "Amy's Valley of Humiliation"
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The Boy Prodigy: Xiang Tuo
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Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839 to 1844
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