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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.

Game of the Great Men, Minot the Elder
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Making Peace with the Catholic Church, 1801–2
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New Zealand School Photographs, 1950 and 1964
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Two Peasants Repairing a Cart
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Official Document, Police Letter
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980
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Illustration from The Maqamat of al-Hariri
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Long Teaching Module: Parents, Children, and Political Authority in 19th century Argentina
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New Netherland Institute
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Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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“Africae Novo” Map
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A Naval Encounter between Dutch and Spanish Warships
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Letter to Council Women
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Mounted Mongol Warriors
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