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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.

Portrait of General Artigas
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History of the Earth in a Cycle
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Short Teaching Module: Filipino Comfort Women
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Cold War Europe Military Alliances Map
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 2
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The Moundbuilders' Art: A Confluence of 'Ingenuity, Industry, and Elegance'
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Source Collection: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution
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Mission San Xavier del Bac
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The Mode of Exterminating the Black Army as Practised by the French
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Edward Waring on Borax as medicine in India
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The Executive Abroad
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"The Problems of Third World Development"
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World map by Henricus Martellus
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Map with Many of the Protests in Puerto Rico and the World 2019
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Catalan Map of the World, c.1450
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