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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.

Short Teaching Module: The Nonaligned Movement and Cold War Détente
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Short Teaching Module: Early Modern Islamic Carpets as Transcultural Objects
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Making African Connections
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Commonwealth of Independent States, Map 1994
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Marco Polo’s Travels
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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John Stuart Mill on the French Revolution
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula
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The Children of Edward Holden Cruttenden
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Mameluke with a basket of flowers, 1641
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Enslaved and Free Blacks in Saint Domingue
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Mexican Newspaper Reports on American Women Crossing the Border
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Long Teaching Module: Parents, Children, and Political Authority in 19th century Argentina
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Chinese Troops during the Xinhai Revolution
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Treaty of Versailles
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