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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.

Louis XVI and His Family (20 January 1793)
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Manuelita
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Thälmann Pioneer's Shirt
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Laws of Manu
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 3
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Veritable Records of the Chosŏn Dynasty
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History of the Earth in a Cycle
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Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai
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Olympic Museum
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The True Woman
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Short Teaching Module: The Nonaligned Movement and Cold War Détente
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Short Teaching Module: Nineteenth-Century American Trade on Zanzibar
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Pestle Finial from Papua New Guinea
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Source Collection: Women and the Revolution
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