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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.

Source Collection: Paris and the Politics of Rebellion
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Guang yutu map
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Vending Machine
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Solidarity Commemorates Tiananmen Square
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Ptolemy's World Map
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Drug Abuse is Suicide
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Mercator Projection
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Coin minted by Constantine
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Revenge Taken by the Black Army for the Cruelties Practised on Them by the French
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Rivalry Between English and Dutch East India Companies
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Shame to the loafer and the drunkard
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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The Natural History of a Chinese Girl
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The High-Caste Hindu Woman
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Medieval Family Life
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