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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.

Primer: Environmental History
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Short Teaching Module: Maya Writing
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Malleus Maleficarum, Witch Hunter Manual
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Oath of the New Horaces
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Louis XVI
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Primer: Defining World History
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The Bayeux Tapestry
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Photograph from an Independence Protest, Alexandria, Egypt, 1919
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Short Teaching Module: Grimms' Children's and Household Tales
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The happy life Chairman Mao gave us, 1954
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Wooden Stockade on Penang Island, 18th century
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Tear Down this Wall
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Newspaper report on Eva Peron's Death
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Source Collection: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution
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Short Teaching Module: Early Modern Islamic Carpets as Transcultural Objects
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