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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.

Long Teaching Module: “Reading” Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
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People Reading the Gazette
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Bronx Schoolyard
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Sorghaghtani Beki and Tolui
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Camila O'Gorman
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Wooden Triptych
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The Moundbuilders' Art: A Confluence of 'Ingenuity, Industry, and Elegance'
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Misión San Ildefonso
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Long Teaching Module: Women in the British Empire, 1800-2000
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Teaching Central America
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Bill of Lading of a ship from Piscataqua to Bilbao in Spain, 1721
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Nisa, The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak
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Photographs of the St. Stanisław Kostka Church in Warsaw
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India’s Cries to British Humanity
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Malinche Sculpture
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