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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.

Olympic Museum
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Rockefeller Foundation Report Concerning the Yellow Fever Vaccine
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Old Mission Santa Barbara
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Celebrating Napoleon's Birthday on the Island of St. Helena
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Primer: Transnational History
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De Tente en el Aire y Mulata, Albarrasado
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Analyzing Primary Sources on Women in World History
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General Federation of the French
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World Light Map
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Printed Cloth of the Directory and Napoleon
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Short Teaching Module: Soviet Health Posters
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Analyzing Inquisition Documents
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Children and Toys
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Primer: Borderlands History
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1841 Letter from Atkins Hamerton
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