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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.

Old Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
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Buddha Sheltered by a Naga
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Swaddled Children Terra Cotta Bas-Reliefs
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Short Teaching Module: Graffiti, Gender, and Youth (20th c.)
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Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate
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Misión Basilica San Diego de Alcalá
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An Ottoman “Bill of Rights”
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Javanese Gamelan
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Louis as No More Than a Man
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Manifest Record from the S.S. Atenas
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Electing the House of Representatives
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Memoir of William Ruschenberger
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Long Teaching Module: Everyday Life in Eastern Europe in the 1980s
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Little Women, "Amy's Valley of Humiliation"
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Gin Lane (1751)
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