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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.

Woman with Lenin/Stalin Flag
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Census of 1910 tuberculosis data
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America Invertida (Inverted America)
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Source Collection: Pennsylvania Newspapers React to Refugees from Haitian Revolution
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Vulgarly Called the Wanton
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Primer: Transnational History
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Gulhane Proclamation
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Louis XVI
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Showa Steelworks in Anshan (Northeast China)
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Short Teaching Module: A Human History of Commodities
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Middle Passage
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Birth Rituals in the Codex Mendoza
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Long Teaching Module: Bhakti Poets
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Misión San Francisco de la Espada
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Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate
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