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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.

Edifying and curious letters of some Missioners of the Society of Jesus from foreign missions
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Suffrage Atelier Postcard, 1909
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Official Document, Women's Employment
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Barada Panel in Great Mosque in Damascus
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His Monument: Napoleon's Past and Future Are FIlled With Dead Bodies
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Syllabus: Women and Gender in World History, 600-2000
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Maya Drinking Vessel with Seated Lord, 7th-8th century
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Advertisement for Sale of Newly Arrived Africans
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Mabo Song
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Treaty of Versailles
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The Mercator Projection
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1996 New Zealand Census Information
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Nobel Peace Center
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Chinese Migrants to U.S. by way of Mexico
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Short Teaching Module: Play in Tokugawa Japan
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