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An open educational resource with peer-reviewed content for world and global history teachers, scholars, and students. This website provides more than 1,500 annotated primary sources, 80 teaching guides, 30 overviews of methods and approaches, and 200 website reviews.

Digital Archive: International History Declassified

Long Live Liberty

Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period

A woman dressed in a kimono and hair in Japanese style sits in a room playing a shamisen. A tray with a tea set and a tobacco tray are placed next to her, and a screen is placed at her back.

Patience Monsignor Your Turn Will Come

Thumbnail of print cartoon

Mexican-American War and the Media

Painting of men on a stoop reading a newspaper with shocked expressions surrounded by

Last Meeting of Louis XVI with His Family at the Temple Prison

In Memory of Marat, Friend of the People, Assassinated 13 July, 1793

Thumbnail print of assassination

President of a Revolutionary Committee Distracting Himself with His Art While Waiting

Thumbnail of engraving

Protect the Great Results of the Cultural Revolution, 1974

Kaichi and Mitsuke Schools

Thumbnail of school building photo

Map Section Image Database

Detail: 1500s map of Asia Minor

Fusillade in the Faubourg St. Antoine, 28 April 1789

Jumping Rope

It Must Not Happen Again (2)

National Security Archive: Sources on Latin America