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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.

Decameron
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Outward Cargo Manifest of the Rowena, 1841
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Quilted bedcover of Elisabeth Chapman
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Islamic Carpet made in Ottoman Turkey at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Divorce in the Soviet Union
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Health Ordinances of Pistoia, 1348
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Newspaper Article Promoting the Pan-African Congress
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Exploring Africa
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Ship
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Teaching LGBTQ History
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Toys
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U.S. targets Indian activist, Taraknath Das
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 2
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Captured Africans Liberated from a Slaving Vessel
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Mesoamerican Pictogram
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