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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.

Tomoe Gozen
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School Population in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Silent Film Sheet Music
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London Low Life
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Lord Kitchener, “Birth of Ghana,” 1957
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Lord Ismay Notice Regarding Indian Partition
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Mapping the Republic of Letters
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Photograph of the Boy Scout World Jamboree in 1929
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Louis XVI distributes aid to the Poor
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Divorce in the Soviet Union
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Japanese American Incarceration, Interview
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Showa Steelworks in Anshan (Northeast China)
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Invoice of goods shipped from New Orleans to Matamoros, Mexico in 1847
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Pittsburgh Newspaper Article “Bank Gives Boost to Black Areas”
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La Exaltación de la Santa Cruz Mission
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