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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.

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula
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Bonaparte Visiting the Hospital in Jaffa
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His Monument: Napoleon's Past and Future Are FIlled With Dead Bodies
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The Cathedral of Buenos Aires
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Short Teaching Module: Soviet Health Posters
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Long Teaching Module: Everyday Life in Eastern Europe in the 1980s
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Pathfinder Warrant
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Catharina Schrader
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Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis
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The 33 Orientales
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Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
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Division with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Hippolyte Taine on the French Revolution
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Sugarcane Workers Strike
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Akan Gold-Weight in the Shape of the Sankofa Bird
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