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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: Business History and Multilocal Approaches to World History
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Tear Down this Wall
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Misión San Francisco de la Espada
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Memoirs and Poems of Phillis Wheatley
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Teaching Central America
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Girl Museum
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Mexico Cartoon, 1846
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Cuauhtémoc prisionero
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The Turin Beatus Map of the World
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Calendar from Cham manuscript, early 20th century
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Auction
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Long Teaching Module: The Romanian Revolution of 1989
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"On Scarlet Fever"
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People under the Old Regime
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John Smith's Map of Virginia 1624
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