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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.

Short Teaching Module: Christianity and Slavery in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1480s-1520s
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Three-Character Classic
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Misión San Gabriel Arcángel
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Short Teaching Module: Business History and Multilocal Approaches to World History
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Primer: Gender in World History
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Photograph from an Independence Protest, Alexandria, Egypt, 1919
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1841 Letter from Atkins Hamerton
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey
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The Foreign Relations of the United States Series
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Wearing Gay History
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National Academy of Sciences objects to political persecution of Condon, 1948
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Portrait of Hernán Cortés
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present
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Child’s Life Course
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Analyzing Maps
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