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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.

Ptolemy's World Map
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Robespierre 10 Thermidor—Exposition of 1877
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HMM Algeciras
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Naval History and Heritage Command
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India’s Cries to British Humanity
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Rajah Rammohun Roy Excerpts
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The Tragic End of Louis XVI
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Sympathy
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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture A Native of Africa
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Hangzhou elites in 1935
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Short Teaching Module: A Human History of Commodities
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Short Teaching Module: Remembering Tiananmen Square
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Short Teaching Module: Play in Tokugawa Japan
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Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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From John Bartholomew, Literary and historical atlas of America
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