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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.

Robots Reading Vogue
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Vulgarly Called the Wanton
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Old Mission San Juan Bautista
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Lord Kitchener, “Birth of Ghana,” 1957
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Portrait of Manuel Mansilla
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Interview with Sa’ida Jarallah
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Fundraising for Palestinian Families in Jerusalem
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X-ray of a cross-section of a coral core
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Excerpt of Le Fresne
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The Little Cartesian Devil
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The Half-Male, Half-Female Form of Shiva (Shiva Ardhanarishvara)
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Mercator Projection
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1919 Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum Annual Report
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Remains of Christopher Colombus
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Primer: Global Urban History
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