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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.

Solidarity Election Flier, “How to vote for Solidarity in Żoliborz”
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Harvard Physics Department asserts that investigations threaten national security, 1950
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Edward Waring on Borax as medicine in India
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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The Welcoming of a Marquis in Hell
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Neolithic Bone Flutes
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Louis XVI
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"We can stop this Makapuu madness!"
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Misión San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo
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Ceramic Female Figure from Ecuador
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A Poem by Victor Hugo (1830)
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X-ray of a cross-section of a coral core
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Bone comb
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Tomoe Gozen
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An Ottoman “Bill of Rights”
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