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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.

Engraving of a Rechentisch (Counting Board)
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Long Teaching Module: Border Changes of the Soviet Union
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Reception of the Envoys from Kandy in Colombo
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Adding and Subtracting with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Short Teaching Module: Orphans and Colonialism (17th c.)
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Sorghaghtani Beki and Tolui
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Gin Lane (1751)
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Peter Kropotkin on the Need for Individual Action
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Misión San Ildefonso
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Analyzing Travel Records
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Bronx Schoolyard
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Photograph of "Principal Chiefs" from West Africa
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The Bayeux Tapestry
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Short Teaching Module: Spatial Histories of Law, Race and Empire
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Middle Passage
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