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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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Abstention Rate in Napoleonic Plebiscites
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Women from Bohemia
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Mesoamerican Pictogram
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi 2
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Commonwealth of Independent States, Map 1994
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Short Teaching Module: Nineteenth-Century American Trade on Zanzibar
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The 33 Orientales
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Auction
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The Prophet Muhammad and A’isha
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Soviet Administrative Map, 1989
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Mau Mau Fighters in Scout Uniforms
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Short Teaching Module: Translation and a World History of the Qing Empire
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Map of Europe, 1918
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Misión San Francisco de la Espada
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