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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.

Quilted bedcover of Elisabeth Chapman
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View of the Coffee Plantation Marienbosch in Surinam
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Advertisement for Sale of Newly Arrived Africans
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Market in Southeastern Nigeria
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Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1857
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Mijikenda textiles
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Short Teaching Module: Translation and a World History of the Qing Empire
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A Mother's Power
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Misión San Gabriel Arcángel
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Food
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The Taoist Priest of Lao-Shan
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The Bayeux Tapestry
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Studying for the mother country, 1986
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Primer: Global Microhistory
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Islamic Carpets
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