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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.

Treaties Between the VOC and the Spice Islands
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 3
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Puerto Rican Labor Movement and the 1940 Census
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Neolithic Bone Flutes
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First Sounds of the Hymn of Independence
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Primer: Transcultural History
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Selling Toys
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X-ray of a cross-section of a coral core
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The Little Cartesian Devil
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Hangzhou elites in 1935
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Robespierre 10 Thermidor—Exposition of 1877
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Courage
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Diapers
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Edifying and curious letters of some Missioners of the Society of Jesus from foreign missions
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Cold War Europe Military Alliances Map
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