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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.

The Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de Henares
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Africae tabula noua
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Tags and Throws on a SoHo Side Street
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Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
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Long Teaching Module: Education in the Middle East, 1200-2010
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapping
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Nobel Peace Center
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Triumph of the Year 1813
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Multiplication with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Islamic Carpet made in Ottoman Turkey at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Uruguayan Jail Cell Door
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Short Teaching Module: A Human History of Commodities
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His Monument: Napoleon's Past and Future Are FIlled With Dead Bodies
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The Butcher Shop, Warsaw
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“Entrando a la plaza” by Pedro Figari
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