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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.

Short Teaching Module: Nineteenth-Century American Trade on Zanzibar
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Islamic Carpet made in Safavid Iran
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Long Teaching Module: Caribbean Seafaring in the Archaic Age (2000-400 BC)
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Making Peace with the Catholic Church, 1801–2
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Patience and Power by Susan Davis
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Painting of Imelda Marcos, Philippine First Lady
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Short Teaching Module: Early Modern Islamic Carpets as Transcultural Objects
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Meeting of the Emperors at Tilsit
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Meroitic Script
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GDP in Eastern Europe: 1980-1989
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Abuses to Suppress
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The Times of India Masthead
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Charles Maurras on the French Revolution
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Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis
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Caribbean Sea Migration Collection
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