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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.

Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate
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Cueva de los Manos, Rio Pinturas
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The Third Estate Marrying Priests with Nuns
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Woman with Lenin/Stalin Flag
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Hobo-Dyer Projection Worldmap
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Guadeloupean Household Workers at Ellis Island
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Source Collection: Korean Colonial-Era Children’s Literature
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A Hindu Princess Committing Sati against the Wishes of Emperor Akbar
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Analyzing Travel Records
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Early Modern Ottoman Carpet at the Walters Art Museum
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Louis the Sixteenth, King of France and of Navarre
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The World: Map of N. & S. America
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Short Teaching Module: Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland
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SOS Avenir Minguettes President Toumi Djaïdja in Lyon, France
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The Griots of West Africa
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