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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.

Queens Rooftops, Seen From a Subway Platform
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Short Teaching Module: The Nonaligned Movement and Cold War Détente
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Misión Basilica San Diego de Alcalá
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Mexico Cartoon, 1846
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Remains of the Stargate Canoe
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Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839 to 1844
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Bill of Lading of a ship from Piscataqua to Bilbao in Spain, 1721
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Bonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic
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Page from the Pentaglot Manchu Glossary
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Seeking to Avoid Military Service, 1865
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Photograph of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Activist
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Neolithic Bone Flutes
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Emmerton Letter, 1926
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Mabo Song
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Long Teaching Module: New Zealand Childhoods (18th–20th c.)
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