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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.

Wooden Triptych
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Map of Land Grant for Cornell University, 1877
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History of Pre-Modern Math
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Map of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1768
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Misión San Juan Capistrano
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Olympic Games Poster, Stockholm, 1912.
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 1
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Akan Gold-Weight in the Shape of the Sankofa Bird
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Excerpts from the Hadith by A’isha
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Portrait of Carlota Ferreira
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La Misión de Corpus Christi de San Antonio de la Ysleta del Sur
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Misión San Rafael Arcángel
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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Illustration from The Maqamat of al-Hariri
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Ship Plan of a Late-19th Century Steamship
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