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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.

His Monument: Napoleon's Past and Future Are FIlled With Dead Bodies
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Source Collection: Women and the Revolution
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Short Teaching Module: Agricultural Knowledge in the Late Nineteenth Century
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The High-Caste Hindu Woman
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Navigational Charts Based on Those Used by Zheng He
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Caribbean Sea Migration Collection
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Catharina Schrader
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A Visual Guide to the Cold War
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Advertisement for the Auction of the Ann’s Cargo, 1827
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Parque Lage
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National Assembly Relinquishes All Privileges
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Reception of the Envoys from Kandy in Colombo
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“Africae Novo” Map
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Guadeloupean Household Workers at Ellis Island
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Antonio Gramsci: Selections from The Prison Notebooks
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