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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.

Japanese American Incarceration, Interview
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Commission Hearing Excerpt
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Construction drawing of a social housing high-rise in Duchère
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Sati Handprints
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Source Collection: French Monarchy Falls
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Boke of Chyldren by Thomas Phaer
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Short Teaching Module: East Asian Developmental States in Global History
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Nutmeg and the Spice Wars in Southeast Asia
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapping
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Cartoon about the Ottoman Empire
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Teaching Central America
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Long Teaching Module: Bhakti Poets
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An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
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The Philosophy of History
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Mazzini on Revolutionary Nationalism
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