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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.

Age of Consent Laws
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Burning the Guardhouse on the Pont Neuf
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Long Teaching Module: Sati
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Scenes from Andrzej Wajda’s film, Man of Iron (1981)
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Mazzini on Revolutionary Nationalism
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Picture of civil rights activist, Djida Tazdaït
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey
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Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie
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Quilted bedcover of Elisabeth Chapman
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Excerpt from The History of Mary Prince
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“The South African College and Its ‘Old Boys,’” 1886
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An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
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Long Teaching Module: Women and Empire
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Museo Regional de Oriente
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Drug Abuse is Suicide
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