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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 Butcher Shop, Warsaw
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Short Teaching Module: Florence Farmborough and the Russian Front, 1914-1918
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Short Teaching Module: Portraying Women Workers: Beyond Norma Rae
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Cecil Rhodes monument, Cape Town, South Africa
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Mummified Inca Child Sacrifices
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Clothing
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Disinfection of Dakar houses with a Clayton Apparatus
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HMM Algeciras
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Portrait of Gaspar Sánchez
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Cast of the Hand of Brazilian Emperor Pedro II
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South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
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Boke of Chyldren by Thomas Phaer
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The mayor of Lyon, France drives a bulldozer to initiate construction of social housing
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Speech by U.S. Civil Rights Leader Robert Williams, 1966
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Thälmann Pioneer's Shirt
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