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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: “Reading” Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
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Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi
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Statistics on Polish Catholicism in the Communist Era
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Tear Down this Wall
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The Red Shoes
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De Maistre, Considerations on France
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Louis XVI distributes aid to the Poor
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Old Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
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Florence Farmborough’s Journal
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Misión San José y San Miguel de Aguayo
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Sanitarium Weet-Bix Packet
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Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839 to 1844
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Photograph from an Independence Protest, Alexandria, Egypt, 1919
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New Zealand School Photographs, 1950 and 1964
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Nok Terracotta Sculptures
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