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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.

Health Ordinances of Pistoia, 1348
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Sati Handprints
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Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
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Primer: Rewriting of Sub-Saharan African History
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Efforts at Controlling Yellow Fever
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Map of the Range of Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, 1962
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Showa Steelworks in Anshan (Northeast China)
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Cartoon Depicts Debate at Hasting's Impeachment Trial, 1788
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Female Terracotta Figure
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Glikl
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Silent Film Sheet Music
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Outward Cargo Manifest of the Rowena, 1841
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Source Collection: Korean Colonial-Era Children’s Literature
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“Maori Girls School”
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Two Girls Carrying Children
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