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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.

A Naval Encounter between Dutch and Spanish Warships
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Teaching Central America
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The Mercator Projection
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Early Modern Counter
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Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Solemn Inauguration of the Statue of Liberty
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Christopher Columbus monument removal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Little Nemo in Slumberland
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Frederick Engels: Socialism, Utopic and Scientific
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Temple of Vespasian altar
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Louis XVI
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Long Teaching Module: The Romanian Revolution of 1989
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Syllabus: Women and Gender in World History, 600-2000
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Post-Soviet Population Table, 2006
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Somoza cartoon
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