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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.

Hakluyt's The Principall Investigations
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French Constitution, Rights of Man and Citizen
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"The Song of the End": The Whole World Now Chases Him
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 1
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"Resolutely support the just struggle of the American Blacks!" Propaganda Poster, 1963
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Short Teaching Module: Making Empire Global - British Imperialism in India, 1750-1800
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Plan for the City of Moscow
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Tags and Throws on a SoHo Side Street
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Video of Ceausescu’s Last Speech, December 1989
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Chinese Migrants to U.S. by way of Mexico
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Romania and Its Neighbors
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Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis
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Mummified Inca Child Sacrifices
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The Times of India Masthead
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