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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.

Tobacco Workers
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The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
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The Crushed Aristocracy
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Cortés Greets Xicotencatl in Mexican Manuscript
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Long Teaching Module: The Collapse of Yugoslavia
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Short Teaching Module: Agricultural Knowledge in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Sanitarium Weet-Bix Packet
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Death Mask of Pancho Villa
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Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Misión Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña
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Misión San Antonio de Padua
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Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo
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Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves
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Church Missionary Society Periodicals
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Short Teaching Module: Precolonial Kenya, a Small-Scale History
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