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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.

The Welcoming of a Marquis in Hell
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Cartoon Mocking British Policy toward India, 1788
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Boke of Chyldren by Thomas Phaer
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Susanna and the Elders
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Map of the Travels of Xuanzang (629 AD - 645 AD) Journey to the West
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Map of the Union Pacific Railway
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Cuauhtémoc prisionero
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Early Modern Dutch and English Propaganda
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Marshall Islands Stick Charts
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Stonewall Jackson monument, Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Short Teaching Module: Translation and a World History of the Qing Empire
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Misión San José de Laguna
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The Sugar Mill
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Invoice of goods shipped from New Orleans to Matamoros, Mexico in 1847
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Economic Diplomacy in the Caribbean Since the Second World War
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