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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.

Portrait of Carlota Ferreira
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Manifest Record from the S.S. Atenas
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Women and Stalinism: Drawing, Old Way of Life
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Zoomorphic Figure from Papua New Guinea
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Analyzing Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
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HMM Algeciras
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La Exaltación de la Santa Cruz Mission
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Map of the Philippines, 1734
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The Obelisk of Buenos Aires
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Mercator Projection
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Noticias de Portugal
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The First World War
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Thälmann Pioneer's Shirt
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From John Bartholomew, Literary and historical atlas of America
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Remains of Christopher Colombus
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