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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.

Short Teaching Module: Teaching the Intersection of Gender and Race through Colonial Medical Texts
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Hakluyt's The Principall Investigations
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
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Long Teaching Module: Exploring Empire through the Lens of Childhood and Gender
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Primer: Gender in World History
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Photographs of the St. Stanisław Kostka Church in Warsaw
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Printed Cloth of the Directory and Napoleon
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Travel writing of al-Biruni, 11th century Persian scholar
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Stonewall Jackson monument, Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Short Teaching Module: European Maps of the Early Modern World
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Long Teaching Module: Nationalities and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1989-2000
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Source Collection: Monarchy Embattled
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Women's Union Telegram
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Hippolyte Taine on the French Revolution
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Short Teaching Module: Christianity and Slavery in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1480s-1520s
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