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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.

Egyptian Mummy Coffin
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Excerpt from The History of Mary Prince
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Long Teaching Module: The Romanian Revolution of 1989
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National World War II Museum
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Olympic Games Poster, Stockholm, 1912.
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Printing Press
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Bar Miztvah
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Misión San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
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Official Document, Police Letter
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Excerpt of Le Fresne
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Short Teaching Module: Cultural Exchange Before Modern Times
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Debris of the French Army Returning to the Fatherland
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The Marseillaise
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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Indian textile fragment, 14th-15th century
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