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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.

M. Cornelius Statius
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Gold Solidus of Justinian I (527–65)
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A Hindu Princess Committing Sati against the Wishes of Emperor Akbar
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World map by Henricus Martellus
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Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie
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Mesoamerican Pictogram
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Shell Pendant or Bead from Ecuador
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Map of Land Grant for Cornell University, 1877
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1919 Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum Annual Report
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Page from Qing Veritable Records
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 4
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Portrait of Francisco López de Solís
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Misión Nuestro Señora de la Soledad
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Photograph of the Boy Scout World Jamboree in 1929
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America Invertida (Inverted America)
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