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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.

Primer: Transcultural History
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Source Collection: Pennsylvania Newspapers React to Refugees from Haitian Revolution
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Girl Museum
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Alexander Hamilton on the French Revolution
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Ancient Courses: Mississippi River Meander Belt
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Torture in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday (1939)
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De Tente en el Aire y Mulata, Albarrasado
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Studying for the mother country, 1986
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Photograph of the Boy Scout World Jamboree in 1929
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Short Teaching Module: Business History and Multilocal Approaches to World History
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Burning the Guardhouse on the Pont Neuf
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Mencius and his Mother: A Lesson Drawn from Weaving
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Three-Character Classic
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Abuses to Suppress
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