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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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The Tragic End of Louis XVI
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Salisbury Crags
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Portrait of Carlota Ferreira
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The Dance of Death
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The Cathedral of Buenos Aires
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Misión La Purísima Concepción De María Santísima
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Women from Bohemia
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Efforts at Controlling Yellow Fever
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Laws of Manu
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Auction
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Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi
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Children and Daguerreotypes
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The Whole Duty of Woman
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Hangzhou elites in 1935
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