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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.

Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey
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Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate
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The Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday
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The Moundbuilders' Art: A Confluence of 'Ingenuity, Industry, and Elegance'
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Short Teaching Module: Translation and a World History of the Qing Empire
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Short Teaching Module: Roman Children’s Sarcophagi
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Short Teaching Module: Cultural Exchange Before Modern Times
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Codex Mendoza
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Printing Press
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The Gall-Peters Projection
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Meeting of the Emperors at Tilsit
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Mabo Song
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Battle of Aboukir
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Olympic Museum
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