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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.

Long Teaching Module: The Catholic Church in Poland, 1950-2000
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Hugo, Ninety–Three
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Excerpts from the Hadith by A’isha
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Brooklyn's Panorama Competition
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Short Teaching Module: European Maps of the Early Modern World
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Cecil Rhodes monument, Cape Town, South Africa
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Bonaparte and Islam
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List of Foreign Arrivals in the Port of Zanzibar from the 16th September 1832 to 26th May 1835
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Alexis de Tocqueville on the French Revolution
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Video: Boy Scouts at 1929 World Jamboree Perform as Native Americans
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Tracing Canoe Pathways in the Lesser Antilles, 2000 BE - 400 BC
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The Tragic End of Louis XVI
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Small Terracotta Male
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Ha’amonga ‘a Maui in Tonga
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Pacific Culture Areas Map
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