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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.

Napoleon Is Unable to Digest Leipzig
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Somoza cartoon
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 1
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Joyous Celebration at the New Year
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Edward Waring on Assafœtida as medicine in India
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The Griots of West Africa
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Excerpt of Le Fresne
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Video: Boy Scouts at 1929 World Jamboree Perform as Native Americans
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Child Re-enacting Krishna Story
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X-ray of a cross-section of a coral core
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“The South African College and Its ‘Old Boys,’” 1886
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Short Teaching Module: Consumerism in Poland
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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Death Mask of Pancho Villa
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Infant Mortality: Eastern Europe: 1970-1989
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