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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.

Disciplining Children in the Codex Mendoza
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The Trabant
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Misión San Francisco de Asís (California)
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Misión San Elizario
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The Foreign Travels and Dangerous Voyages of Sir John Mandeville, 14th Century
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Long Teaching Module: Cultural Contact in Southern Africa
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Scotland Forever
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Connections and the Long Cold War in Nicaragua
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Islamic Carpet made in Ottoman Turkey at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Short Teaching Module: Children and Daguerreotypes (19th c.)
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The Obelisk of Buenos Aires
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Visualizing Energy:
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Construction drawing of a social housing high-rise in Duchère
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Anonymous Portrait
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Liberty
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