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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.

Pestle Finial from Papua New Guinea
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Disciplining Children in the Codex Mendoza
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Chinese Migrants to U.S. by way of Mexico
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Long Teaching Module: The Romanian Revolution of 1989
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Akan Gold-Weight in the Shape of the Sankofa Bird
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Pueblo of Texupa
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Map of Land Grant for New Zealand University, 1873
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Short Teaching Module: Controversial Historical Monuments
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Hangzhou elites in 1935
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Sugarcane Workers Strike
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Printed Cloth of the Directory and Napoleon
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Artwork by Calixto MamanĂ­
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Mau Mau Fighters in Scout Uniforms
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Soviet Administrative Map, 1989
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Edward Waring on Borax as medicine in India
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