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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.

Ashokan Pillar with a Single-Lion Capital at Vaishali, India
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"The Song of the End": The Whole World Now Chases Him
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Mexico Cartoon, 1846
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Portrait of Hernán Cortés
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Long Teaching Module: Women in the British Empire, 1800-2000
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Census of 1910 tuberculosis data
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Enslaved and Free Blacks in Saint Domingue
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Ancient Courses: Mississippi River Meander Belt
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Short Teaching Module: Soviet Health Posters
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 2
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Apolitical Intellectuals/ Intelectuales Apolíticos
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Newspaper report on Eva Peron's Death
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Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
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Two Peasants Repairing a Cart
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The Third Estate Marrying Priests with Nuns
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