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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.

Portrait of Gaspar Sánchez
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Old Mission San Buenaventura
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History of the Earth in a Cycle
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Rivalry Between English and Dutch East India Companies
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Childhood Obesity in the United States
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Enslaved and Free Blacks in Saint Domingue
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Egyptian Mummy Coffin
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Claude Antoine Rozet Paintings
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Apolitical Intellectuals/ Intelectuales Apolíticos
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New Zealand School Photographs, 1950 and 1964
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Short Teaching Module: Teaching the Intersection of Gender and Race through Colonial Medical Texts
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Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
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The French Nation Defeats Despotism
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Misión San José de los Jémez
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi
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