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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.

The Squirt Gun
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Short Teaching Module: Spatial Histories of Law, Race and Empire
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The Dance of the Dead
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Photographs from the Papal Visit of 1987
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Primer: Global Microhistory
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National Assembly Relinquishes All Privileges
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Debris of the French Army Returning to the Fatherland
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Malleus Maleficarum, Witch Hunter Manual
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Making Peace with the Catholic Church, 1801–2
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Vending Machine
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Edifying and curious letters of some Missioners of the Society of Jesus from foreign missions
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BaAka Women Dancing the Hunting Dance, Ndambo
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The happy life Chairman Mao gave us, 1954
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Census Protest for Women's Suffrage
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Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis
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