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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.

Short Teaching Module: Grimms' Children's and Household Tales
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Balzac’s The Chouans
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The Boy Prodigy: Xiang Tuo
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John Stuart Mill on the French Revolution
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Source Collection: Pennsylvania Newspapers React to Refugees from Haitian Revolution
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Misión San Antonio de Padua
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Cast of the Hand of Brazilian Emperor Pedro II
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Apollo 11 Moonwalk
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Needing Assistance, 1864
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The Cathedral of Buenos Aires
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Tags and Throws on a SoHo Side Street
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New Zealand School Photographs, 1950 and 1964
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The Dance of Death
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Thomas Jefferson on the French Revolution
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 2
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