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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.

Short Teaching Module: Colonialism and Local Power
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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The Mode of Exterminating the Black Army as Practised by the French
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Misión Nuestra Señora del Refugio
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula
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Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Robespierre 10 Thermidor—Exposition of 1877
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“Aparición de San Isidoro al Rey Fernando el Santo ante los muros de Sevilla” by Francisco de Goya
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Short Teaching Module: Examining Early Genoese Voyages through Maps
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The School Journal, 1907 - [Magazine]
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Primer: Technology
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Malleus Maleficarum, Witch Hunter Manual
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Huun-Huur-Tu Throat Singers
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Excerpt from Courrier of Avignon
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Glikl
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