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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.

Edifying and curious letters of some Missioners of the Society of Jesus from foreign missions
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De Tente en el Aire y Mulata, Albarrasado
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Mummified Inca Child Sacrifices
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Photograph, Needleworker
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Mexican Newspaper Reports on American Women Crossing the Border
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Leon Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution
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Long Teaching Module: The Collapse of Yugoslavia
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Progression of Napoleon’s Life
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Seeking to Avoid Military Service, 1865
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Bonaparte, First Consul, Putting Away His Sword after the General Peace
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Anonymous Portrait
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Short Teaching Module: East Asian Developmental States in Global History
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Bonaparte and Islam
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The Little Cartesian Devil
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General Federation of the French
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