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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.

Short Teaching Module: The Nonaligned Movement and Cold War Détente
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The Taoist Priest of Lao-Shan
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The True Woman
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Japanese American Incarceration, Interview
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Photograph, Needleworker
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Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
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Kant, The Contest of Faculties
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Barada Panel in Great Mosque in Damascus
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Shopping queue in Wrocław
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Transplanting Teeth
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The Batavia Castle
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Short Teaching Module: Global Approaches to Maritime Trade in Colonial North America
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Women from Bohemia
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The Welcoming of a Marquis in Hell
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Portrait of Gaspar Sánchez
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