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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.

Division with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Tracing Canoe Pathways in the Lesser Antilles, 2000 BE - 400 BC
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Hippolyte Taine on the French Revolution
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Devshirme System
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Misión San Juan Capistrano
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Portrait of General Artigas
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Old Mission San Buenaventura
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Mercator Projection, Eurasia Centered
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Misión San Cayetano de Tumacácori
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Wolff’s justification for omitting hay values
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Sword Hilt with Revolutionary Icons—Liberty
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Puerto Rican Needleworkers in a Factory, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1942
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Syllabus: Women and Gender in World History, 600-2000
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Cartoon Mocking British Policy toward India, 1788
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The Red Shoes
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