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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.

Ginger bread recipe
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Kasai Velvet, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Sati Engraving: A Gentoo Woman Burning Herself
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Post-Soviet Population Table, 2006
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Manuelita
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Primer: Technology
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Gender Roles among the Nahua in the Codex Mendoza
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Efforts at Controlling Yellow Fever
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The Turin Beatus Map of the World
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Mounted Mongol Warriors
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The Half-Male, Half-Female Form of Shiva (Shiva Ardhanarishvara)
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“Africae Novo” Map
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The Dutch Ambassador on his Way to Isfahan
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First Sounds of the Hymn of Independence
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Map of the Philippines, 1734
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