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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.

Disciplining Children in the Codex Mendoza
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American and Zanzibari Trade Contract, 1841
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Analyzing Photographs
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Children in the Slave Trade Table
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Heading of east portal Tunnel No. 8
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Solidarity Expressions from the Puerto Rican Diaspora
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America Invertida (Inverted America)
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Tomoe Gozen
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The Scout's and King's African Rifles Uniforms
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Short Teaching Module: The Nonaligned Movement and Cold War Détente
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Short Teaching Module: Global Approaches to Maritime Trade in Colonial North America
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Long Teaching Module: Border Changes of the Soviet Union
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John Stuart Mill on the French Revolution
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The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer
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Business contract between Richard P. Waters and his Omani-Zanzibari trading partner, Esau bin Abdul Rahman
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