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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.

Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
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Sympathy
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Short Teaching Module: Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland
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Middle Ages for Educators
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"How Some Children Played at Slaughtering"
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Mexicana: A Repository of Cultural Patrimony in Mexico
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
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Burning the Guardhouse on the Pont Neuf
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Birth Rituals in the Codex Mendoza
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“Aparición de San Isidoro al Rey Fernando el Santo ante los muros de Sevilla” by Francisco de Goya
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The Welcoming of a Marquis in Hell
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The Cathedral of Buenos Aires
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Children and Toys
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Two Peasants Repairing a Cart
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Misión San Estévan del Rey de Ácoma
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