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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.

A Poem by Victor Hugo (1830)
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The Welcoming of a Marquis in Hell
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi 2
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Misión San Rafael Arcángel
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"The Problems of Third World Development"
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Soviet Nationalities Map, 1989
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Hakluyt's The Principall Investigations
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Sympathy
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Short Teaching Module: Children, Culture, and Folktales
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Age of Menarche in Norway
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Mummified Inca Child Sacrifices
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Statistics on Catholicism in Poland after the fall of Communism
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Legislative Palace of Uruguay
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Norma Rae: Depicting Women's Labor History through Film
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Short Teaching Module: Controversial Historical Monuments
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