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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: Play in Tokugawa Japan
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Janabai
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Living History by Hillary Clinton
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The Gall-Peters Projection
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The Chinese Boy and Girl
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Misión San Ildefonso
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Sati Handprints
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Islamic Carpet made in Safavid Iran
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The Cathedral of Buenos Aires
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Eighteenth-Century Uruguayan Home
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Long Teaching Module: Sati
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The mayor of Lyon, France drives a bulldozer to initiate construction of social housing
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Printed Cloth of the Directory and Napoleon
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Mission San Xavier del Bac
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Fertility and Abortion in Czechoslovakia, 1950-2005
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