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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.

Photograph from an Independence Protest, Alexandria, Egypt, 1919
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Mazzini on Revolutionary Nationalism
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Patience and Power by Susan Davis
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Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas
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Page from the Pentaglot Manchu Glossary
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Gender Roles among the Nahua in the Codex Mendoza
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Macroeconomic Indicators in Czechoslovakia 1970-1990
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Long Teaching Module: The Romanian Revolution of 1989
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New Zealand School Photographs, 1950 and 1964
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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The Obelisk of Buenos Aires
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Short Teaching Module: Remembering Tiananmen Square
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View of the Coffee Plantation Marienbosch in Surinam
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Childhood Obesity in the United States
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Amrita Sher-Gil: Young Girls, Group of Three Girls
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