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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.

Teaching Central America
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The Chinese Boy and Girl
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Treaty of Versailles
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Map of the Outskirts of Mexico City
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Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
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An Ottoman “Bill of Rights”
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Girl Museum
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Post-Soviet Population Table, 2006
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Auction
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Renunciation case against Gertrudis de Escobar, Mexico, 1659
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Short Teaching Module: Connecting the French Empire
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Tomb of General Juan Lavalle
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Sword of Sieyès
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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World History Encyclopedia
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