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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.

Rights of Man
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Long Teaching Module: New Zealand Childhoods (18th–20th c.)
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Akan Gold-Weight in the Shape of the Sankofa Bird
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Harvard Physics Department asserts that investigations threaten national security, 1950
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First Sounds of the Hymn of Independence
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Javanese Shadow Puppets
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Primer: Transnational Mobility and State Formation
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Anonymous Portrait
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Maria Tallchief in Dance Magazine, 1961
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Battle of Aboukir
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GDP in Yugoslavia: 1980-1989
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Sire, They Are My Sons and My Wife
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Least Cost Pathway Analysis Showing Movement Across a Landscape
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Map of the Range of Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, 1962
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Balzac’s The Chouans
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