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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.

"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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Female Terracotta Figure
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Alexander Hamilton on the French Revolution
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Showa Steelworks in Anshan (Northeast China)
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Painting of Imelda Marcos, Philippine First Lady
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Map of the Outskirts of Mexico City
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Ginger bread recipe
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 3
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Islam on the Ebb
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Short Teaching Module: Remembering Tiananmen Square
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Misión Santa Inés
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Photograph, Needleworker
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Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque
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Market in Southeastern Nigeria
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Short Teaching Module: Florence Farmborough and the Russian Front, 1914-1918
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