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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.

Primer: Environmental History
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Mahabodhi Temple
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Mass Observation Online
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Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home
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Ceramic Female Figure from Ecuador
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Mesoamerican Pictogram
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“Big Business Banishes the Flapper"
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The Graham Children
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Maya Deity-Face Jade Pendant, 7th-8th century
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The Mode of Exterminating the Black Army as Practised by the French
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Edward Waring on Assafœtida as medicine in India
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Photograph of “Indian Tableaux at Endon”
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"How Some Children Played at Slaughtering"
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Sire, They Are My Sons and My Wife
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Map of the Partition of Israel and Palestine
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