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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.

A Poem by Victor Hugo (1830)
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Misión San Francisco de Solano
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A Continent Divided: The U.S. - Mexico War
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Middle Ages for Educators
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Rights of Man
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The Tragic End of Louis XVI
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Short Teaching Module: Making Empire Global - British Imperialism in India, 1750-1800
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Long Teaching Module: Everyday Life in Eastern Europe in the 1980s
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Britannia Rules the Waves!!
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Photograph of Fatima the Moroccan
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Mummified Inca Child Sacrifices
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Bird Stone Figure from Papua New Guinea
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Map of the Range of Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, 1962
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Moai on Easter Island
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Germaine de Staël, A French Writer Exiled by Napoleon
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