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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.

The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer
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The Obelisk of Buenos Aires
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Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas
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Inside a Revolutionary Committee during the Reign of Terror
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Apollo 11 Moonwalk
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Misión Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña
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Original Manuscripts of Anne Frank
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Japanese Mercenaries and the Dutch East India Company
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Globalizing US History
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Multiplication with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Britannia Rules the Waves!!
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“Maori Girls School”
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Ship Plan of a Late-19th Century Steamship
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Gin Lane (1751)
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Pueblo of Texupa
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