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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.

Speech by U.S. Civil Rights Leader Robert Williams, 1966
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Gin Lane (1751)
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History of Pre-Modern Math
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First Sounds of the Hymn of Independence
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Misión Santa Cruz de San Sabá
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Long Teaching Module: Parents, Children, and Political Authority in 19th century Argentina
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Short Teaching Module: Play in Tokugawa Japan
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Maya Drinking Vessel with Seated Lord, 7th-8th century
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Long Teaching Module: Gender and Health in Latin America, 1980-2010
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Child Re-enacting Krishna Story
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British Liberty Tree
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Navigational Charts Based on Those Used by Zheng He
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Louis XVI and His Family (20 January 1793)
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Seeking to Avoid Military Service, 1865
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Misión San Francisco de Asís (California)
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