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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.

Javanese Gamelan
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Bronx Schoolyard
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Catharina Schrader
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Foot Binding
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Schools for the Education of Chinese Girls
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Navigational Charts Based on Those Used by Zheng He
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Illustration from The Maqamat of al-Hariri
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Long Teaching Module: The Collapse of Yugoslavia
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Boke of Chyldren by Thomas Phaer
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Short Teaching Module: Childhood and Transatlantic Slavery
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Malinche Sculpture
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Apollo 11 Moonwalk
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San José de Guadalupe
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The World: Map of N. & S. America
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The Barnyard
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