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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.

Health Ordinances of Pistoia, 1348
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“Drive the old and new colonialists out of Africa!” Propaganda Poster, 1964
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The Good Sans–Culotte
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AAAS Defends Edward Condon from HUAC, 1948
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Ancient Courses: Mississippi River Meander Belt
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Ruins of the Convento de San Francisco
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The Philosophy of History
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Showa Steelworks in Anshan (Northeast China)
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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
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Gulhane Proclamation
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Map of the Union Pacific Railway
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Age of Menarche in Norway
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View of the Coffee Plantation Marienbosch in Surinam
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Analyzing Travel Records
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Sword of Sieyès
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