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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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Yamamoto Shunshō’s The Tale of Genji
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Short Teaching Module: Filipino Comfort Women
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Primer: Technology
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The Taoist Priest of Lao-Shan
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The happy life Chairman Mao gave us, 1954
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Pound Homestead
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Short Teaching Module: Science, Technology, and the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex during the Cold War
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Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
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Misión San José y San Miguel de Aguayo
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey
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The Jingban tianwen quantu Map of the World
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Mr. de Lafayette, Commander of the Paris National Guard, Receives the City’s 'Sword for the Defense of Liberty'
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Misión San Estévan del Rey de Ácoma
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Maria Tallchief in Dance Magazine, 1961
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