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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.

Poverty Point in Louisiana, United States
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A gold dinar of Abd al-Malik minted in Damascus in 697/98
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The Natural History of a Chinese Girl
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 3
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"Yellow fever in Dakar – There is no epidemic"
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Long Teaching Module: Women in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
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“Tell Negroes To Join With Other Peoples Of The World”
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Misión San Juan Capistrano
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Alexis de Tocqueville on the French Revolution
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The Mercator Projection
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The Tragic End of Louis XVI
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Apollo 11 Moonwalk
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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
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Official Document, Women's Employment
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London's Bill of Mortality
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