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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.

Misión Nuestra Señora del Refugio
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Divorce in the Soviet Union
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Uruguayan Jail Cell Door
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Health Ordinances of Pistoia, 1348
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Pueblo of Texupa
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Pound Homestead
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Long Teaching Module: Caribbean Seafaring in the Archaic Age (2000-400 BC)
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Britain pressures U.S. to revoke citizenship of Indian activist
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Short Teaching Module: East Asian Developmental States in Global History
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Battle of Aboukir
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The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer
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Meeting of the Emperors at Tilsit
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Short Teaching Module: Business History and Multilocal Approaches to World History
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Germaine de Staël, A French Writer Exiled by Napoleon
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Piglas-Diwa newsletter/booklet
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