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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 School Journal, 1907 - [Magazine]
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Social Capital in World History: Lyon and Pittsburgh as Examples
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"Yellow fever in Dakar – There is no epidemic"
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Short Teaching Module: Translation and a World History of the Qing Empire
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Tobacco Workers
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A gold dinar of Abd al-Malik minted in Damascus in 697/98
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New Netherland Institute
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Memoir of William Ruschenberger
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Early Modern Dutch and English Propaganda
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Little Nemo in Slumberland
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The Philosophy of History
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Small Terracotta Male
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Excerpt from The History of Mary Prince
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Misión San Lorenzo de Picuris
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Lisbon Port Entry List for Colonial American Ships, 1771
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