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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.

Apollo 11 Moonwalk
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Short Teaching Module: Maya Writing
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Activity: Material Culture and Childhood (20th c.)
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Nautical Chart, 1385
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The Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday
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Quilted bedcover of Elisabeth Chapman
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Removal of the Parlements
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Long Teaching Module: Caribbean Seafaring in the Archaic Age (2000-400 BC)
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Short Teaching Module: Global Approaches to Maritime Trade in Colonial North America
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Economic Declaration of Nonaligned Countries
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Remains of Christopher Colombus
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History of NATO Expansion Map
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Video of Ceausescu’s Last Speech, December 1989
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Missionary Journal, Chinese Culture
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Short Teaching Unit: The Omani Empire and the Center of the Emerging Global Economy, 1500-1850
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