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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.

Official Document, Women's Employment
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Primer: A Global History of Higher Education
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Yamamoto Shunshō’s The Tale of Genji
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Japanese American Incarceration, Interview
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Source Collection: War, Terror, and Resistance to the French Revolution
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Norma Rae: Depicting Women's Labor History through Film
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Disciplining Children in the Codex Mendoza
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Construction drawing of a social housing high-rise in Duchère
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Manifest Record from the S.S. Atenas
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A gold dinar of Abd al-Malik minted in Damascus in 697/98
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Life Histories (Chile) Table
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Schools for the Education of Chinese Girls
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Pacific Culture Areas Map
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Stonewall Jackson monument removal, Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Food
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