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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.

Pound Homestead
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Louis XVI and His Family (20 January 1793)
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Official Document, Women's Employment
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Primer: Commodities
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Misión San Francisco de la Espada
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First Sounds of the Hymn of Independence
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The Emperor and the Imperial Guard on the Island of Elba
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Kaichi and Mitsuke Schools
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View of the Coffee Plantation Marienbosch in Surinam
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History of NATO Expansion Map
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Gold Solidus of Justinian I (527–65)
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Two Peasants Repairing a Cart
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Needing Assistance, 1864
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Long Teaching Module: Border Changes of the Soviet Union
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