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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.

Sugarcane Workers Strike
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Antifascism and Leftist Politics
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Photograph, Needleworker
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 2
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Primer: Global Urban History
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A Continent Divided: The U.S. - Mexico War
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Short Teaching Module: Making Empire Global - British Imperialism in India, 1750-1800
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London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800
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John Smith's Map of Virginia 1624
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Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del Socorro
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Tree Rings as Climate Archive
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The Squirt Gun
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
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Sumerian School Days
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Social Capital in World History: Lyon and Pittsburgh as Examples
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