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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.

Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present
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Silent Film Sheet Music
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GDP in Yugoslavia: 1980-1989
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Ethiopian Healing Scrolls
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Short Teaching Module: Early Modern Islamic Carpets as Transcultural Objects
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A gold dinar of Abd al-Malik minted in Damascus in 697/98
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The Huejotzingo Codex of 1531
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Transplanting Teeth
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National Academy of Sciences objects to political persecution of Condon, 1948
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Short Teaching Module: Science, Technology, and the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex during the Cold War
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Hagia Sophia
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Malinche Sculpture
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Shame to the loafer and the drunkard
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1996 New Zealand Census Information
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"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday (1939)
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