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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.

People Reading the Gazette
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Eighteenth-Century Uruguayan Home
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The Great Heroism of the Nineteenth Century
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Noticias de Portugal
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London Newspaper
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Grid Map of Judicial Independence
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Misión San Ildefonso
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OECS Treaty Publication Fragments
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Short Teaching Module: Business History and Multilocal Approaches to World History
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Africae tabula noua
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Long Teaching Module: “Reading” Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
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Claude Antoine Rozet Paintings
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Short Teaching Module: Indian Immigrants and U.S. Citizenship in an Imperial Context
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Nutmeg and the Spice Wars in Southeast Asia
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Short Teaching Module: Race, Gender, and Transnational Histories of Solidarity
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