World History Matters is a portal to world history websites developed by the Center for History and New Media

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World History Commons

This is an open education resource with peer-reviewed content for world and global history teachers, scholars, and students. It combines content from most of the websites listed in World History Matters.

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Amboyna Conspiracy Trial

Amboyna Conspiracy Trial

Examine a famous 17th-century conspiracy trial involving Japanese mercenaries, Dutch officials and English merchants. Designed for teachers and students interested in European empire, the place of Japan in global history, and the politics of torture and waterboarding.

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Children and Youth in History

Explore the history of children and youth through primary sources, website reviews, teaching modules, and case studies.

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Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives

An online exhibit that immerses viewers in the varied experiences of gulag prisoners.

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Project art for Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution

This site offers a lively introduction to the French Revolution with an extraordinary archive of documentary evidence.

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Project art for Maritime Asia

Maritime Asia

This site explores the fierce rivalry between the Dutch East India Company and the Zheng maritime network as they fought for control over key trades and sea routes.

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Project art for Imaging the French Revolution

Imaging the French Revolution

In essays, seven scholars analyze forty-two images of crowds and crowd violence in the French Revolution.

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Project art for Making the History of 1989

Making the History of 1989

Explore the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe through essays, primary sources, and case studies.

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Project art for Women in World History

Women in World History

An online curriculum resource center designed to help high school and college teachers and students analyze online primary sources.

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World History Sources

A resource center designed to help high school and college world history teachers and students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources and further their understanding of the complex nature of world history issues.

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