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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.

Christopher Columbus monument, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Meiji Era School Attendence
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Middle Passage
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Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi
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Bird Stone Figure from Papua New Guinea
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Short Teaching Module: Controversial Historical Monuments
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Source Collection: Pan-Africanism, Anticolonialism and Addressing the Problem of the Global Color Line in the 20th Century
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Stonewall Jackson monument, Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Torture in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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World War II Military Situation Map
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Mounted Mongol Warriors
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Long Teaching Module: Border Changes of the Soviet Union
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2 Prints of a Sole Amerindian in a Canoe
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Rashid graduates from Oregon Agricultural college, 1908
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Portrait of Carlota Ferreira
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