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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.

Shiva as the Lord of Dance
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"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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Maya Drinking Vessel with Seated Lord, 7th-8th century
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Short Teaching Module: Science, Technology, and the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex during the Cold War
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Analyzing Maps
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Bird Stone Figure from Papua New Guinea
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Clothing
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Short Teaching Module: Nineteenth-Century American Trade on Zanzibar
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The Boy Prodigy: Xiang Tuo
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Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas
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Mummified Inca Child Sacrifices
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Ceramic Female Figure from Ecuador
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Decameron
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Buddha Sheltered by a Naga
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Harvard Physics Department asserts that investigations threaten national security, 1950
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