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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.

Debris of the French Army Returning to the Fatherland
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Short Teaching Module: Girlhood and Little Women
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Mau Mau Fighters in Scout Uniforms
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Protect the Great Results of the Cultural Revolution, 1974
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Business contract between Richard P. Waters and his Omani-Zanzibari trading partner, Esau bin Abdul Rahman
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Rivalry Between English and Dutch East India Companies
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Advertisement for Sale of Newly Arrived Africans
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Short Teaching Module: Florence Farmborough and the Russian Front, 1914-1918
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Louis XVI, King of the French, born 23 August 1754.
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Primer: A Global History of Higher Education
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Pueblo of Texupa
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Bronx Schoolyard
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“Big Business Banishes the Flapper"
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Video: March of Flags from 1929 Boy Scout World Jamboree
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“Aparición de San Isidoro al Rey Fernando el Santo ante los muros de Sevilla” by Francisco de Goya
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