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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.

Mission San Xavier del Bac
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Women’s Work for Woman
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Catharina Schrader
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Cuauhtémoc prisionero
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Short Teaching Module: Codex Mendoza (16th c.)
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Balclutha
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Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis
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Long Teaching Module: Children in Ancient China
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GDP in Eastern Europe: 1980-1989
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Misión San José de los Jémez
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Long Teaching Module: Education in the Middle East, 1200-2010
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Census of 1910 tuberculosis data
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Napoleon Is Unable to Digest Leipzig
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Short Teaching Module: Controversial Historical Monuments
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Emmerton Letter, 1926
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