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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.

Official Document, Police Letter
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Grid Map of Judicial Independence
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Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980
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Teatro Nacional Cervantes
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Short Teaching Module: Portraying Women Workers: Beyond Norma Rae
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Short Teaching Module: Making Empire Global - British Imperialism in India, 1750-1800
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Robots Reading Vogue
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Game of the Great Men, Minot the Elder
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India’s Cries to British Humanity
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Short Teaching Module: Codex Mendoza (16th c.)
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Shell Pendant or Bead from Ecuador
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Femmes Nicaragua
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Manifest Record from the S.S. Atenas
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Crucifix (Nkangi Kiditu)
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The Secret of England's Greatness
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