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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.

The mayor of Lyon, France drives a bulldozer to initiate construction of social housing
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The Gall-Peters Projection
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Sanitarium Weet-Bix Packet
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Analyzing Photographs
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Primer: The History of Globalization
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Long Teaching Module: Nationalities and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1989-2000
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The True Woman
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"The Song of the End": The Whole World Now Chases Him
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Short Teaching Module: Maya Writing
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Excerpt from Ledyard's Journal
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Infant Mortality: Eastern Europe: 1970-1989
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Iglesia Colonial de Conchagua
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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Short Teaching Module: Grimms' Children's and Household Tales
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Rubeola Vulgaris - Measles
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