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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.

Nisa, The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak
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Charles Maurras on the French Revolution
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Needing Assistance, 1864
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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History of NATO Expansion Map
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Portrait of Francisco López de Solís
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Pueblo of Texupa
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"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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Excerpt from Courrier of Avignon
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Gold dinar depicting Caliph Abd al-Malik
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De Tente en el Aire y Mulata, Albarrasado
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Newspaper Report on the Fourth Pan-African Congress Meeting in 1927
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Long Teaching Module: Education in the Middle East, 1200-2010
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The French Nation Defeats Despotism
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Excavation at Çatalhöyük, Turkey
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