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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.

Source Collection: The Enlightenment and Human Rights
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“Contraste” by Joaquín Torres García
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Celebrating Napoleon's Birthday on the Island of St. Helena
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Slave Coffle, Central Africa, 1861
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Christopher Columbus monument, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Social Capital in World History: Lyon and Pittsburgh as Examples
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The Graham Children
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Javanese Shadow Puppets
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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Mabo Song
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America Invertida (Inverted America)
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Tree Rings as Climate Archive
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Short Teaching Module: Play in Tokugawa Japan
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Bonaparte and Islam
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The Foreign Relations of the United States Series
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