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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 Secret of England's Greatness
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Abuses to Suppress
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Gulhane Proclamation
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Drug Abuse is Suicide
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GDP in Eastern Europe: 1980-1989
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Cast of the Hand of Brazilian Emperor Pedro II
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Reunion
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Disinfection of Dakar houses with a Clayton Apparatus
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Nisa, The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak
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The Dance of Death
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SOS Avenir Minguettes President Toumi Djaïdja in Lyon, France
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Birth Rituals in the Codex Mendoza
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Japanese Mercenaries and the Dutch East India Company
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South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
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Shipping Company Route Map from 1889
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