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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.

Foot Binding
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Festival of Supreme Being
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Workers’ Celebration
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San Ysidro and San Buenaventura de Humanas (Gran Quivira)
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Sati Engraving, Burning a Hindoo Widow
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“Africae Novo” Map
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The High-Caste Hindu Woman
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Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas
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Woman with Lenin/Stalin Flag
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The Half-Male, Half-Female Form of Shiva (Shiva Ardhanarishvara)
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Misión San Gabriel Arcángel
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Misión San Antonio de Padua
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Mameluke with a basket of flowers, 1641
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Cartoon Mocking British Policy toward India, 1788
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Padrão
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