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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.

Excerpt from Memoirs by Catharina Schrader
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"How Some Children Played at Slaughtering"
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Early Modern Ottoman Carpet at the Walters Art Museum
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The Trabant
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Beautiful Fatima
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Ruins of the Convento de San Francisco
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Misión Santa Inés
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Meiji Japan
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Catalan Map of the World, c.1450
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Battle of Aboukir
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Maya Vase with Mythological Scene, 7th-8th century
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Misión San Lorenzo de Picuris
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Excavation at Çatalhöyük, Turkey
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Travel writing of al-Biruni, 11th century Persian scholar
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Thomas Jefferson on the French Revolution
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