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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.

Women and Stalinism: Drawing, Old Way of Life
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Short Teaching Module: Borderland Migration and Communities in Twentieth-Century West Africa
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Misión San Gregorio de Abó
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New Netherland Institute
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Treaty of Versailles
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Chinese Migrants to U.S. by way of Mexico
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Short Teaching Module: Portraying Women Workers: Beyond Norma Rae
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Portrait of Manuel Mansilla
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Burning the Guardhouse on the Pont Neuf
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Rights of Man
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Soviet Administrative Map, 1989
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Letter from the Nicaraguan embassy
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Pathfinder Warrant
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Excerpt from Ledyard's Journal
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Early Modern Ottoman Carpet at the Walters Art Museum
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