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This chromolithograph, possibly from a multi-volumed History of Mexico, shows a processional standard with the Virgin of Guadalupe surrounded by Mexican flags and regimental standards. Beneath these are a captured American flag, the captured Texas standard of the Fayette County volunteers from the "Dawson massacre" of 1842, an unidentified regimental standard, as well as swords, bugles, cannons, and a pistol.
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A Continent Divided: The U.S. - Mexico War

The UT Arlington Library's Special Collection is considered amongst the most comprehensive repositories on the U.S. - Mexico war, containing broadsides, sheet music, manuscripts, maps and graphic materials from both U.S. and Mexican sources.
Medieval painting
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Middle Ages for Educators

...the site boasts more than 40 videos and video playlists, more than 125 different resource links, and worked with more than 50 subject matter experts on this project.
German soldiers from WWI standing in front of airplanes preparing to fly and air raid over Paris
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National WWI Museum and Memorial

Due to the immense amount of resources, we advise educators to enter the databases with an idea of what they want rather than attempting to browse.
Part of a Chinese painting of Guanshiyin, a figure from Buddhism. The figure is a person sitting cross-legged practicing meditation.
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National Museum of Asian Art

Because the museum is dedicated to Asian art, its educational resources are largely meant to teach students about art.
Cartoon of layers of many types of maps, including data, topography, land, and contours.
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World Heritage Site Map

The most well-known part of their work is the naming and administration of World Heritage Sites.
Map of Africa with colored points
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African Studies Center

The Center hosts or links to resources on just about every African topic an educator might want to focus on in the classroom.
A View of New Amsterdam in 1673 by Bert Twaalfhoven
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New Netherland Institute

Due to New Netherland’s intersection across several themes such as globalism, Indigenous contact, enslavement history, transatlantic trade, imperialism, religion, it may be a useful case study for educators wishing to teach students about 17th-century Europea
President Bill Clinton reading a book in a classroom
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum

Overall, we found that though the Clinton Library offers a few lesson plans pertinent to global history, these are a bit underdeveloped and educators wishing to use them should strongly consider using supplemental materials
President Harry Truman speaking to General George MacArthur after WWII
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Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Among the student resources, teacher resources, and source databases, users will have access to materials with which they can discuss practically everything that happened in the world during Truman’s life (1883-1973) and even some things outside that time fram