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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.

Posada Broadsheet
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Peter Kropotkin on the Need for Individual Action
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The Dance of the Dead
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Captured Africans Liberated from a Slaving Vessel
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Janabai
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Memoirs and Poems of Phillis Wheatley
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Primer: Technology
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Bonaparte, First Consul, Putting Away His Sword after the General Peace
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“Maori Girls School”
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Short Teaching Module: A Human History of Commodities
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Long Teaching Module: Cultural Contact in Southern Africa
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India’s Cries to British Humanity
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Speech in the Garden of the Palais-Royal
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Source Collection: War, Terror, and Resistance to the French Revolution
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Women from Bohemia
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