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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.

1841 Letter from Atkins Hamerton
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Interview with Sa’ida Jarallah
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Mahabodhi Temple
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Birth Rituals in the Codex Mendoza
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An Ottoman “Bill of Rights”
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Teatro Nacional Cervantes
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Primer: Transnational History
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Te Paranihi, or Maori War Canoe
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Advertisement for the Auction of the Ann’s Cargo, 1827
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Antifascism and Leftist Politics
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Hakluyt's The Principall Investigations
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Sorghaghtani Beki and Tolui
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General Federation of the French
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Short Teaching Module: Borderland Migration and Communities in Twentieth-Century West Africa
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Misión San Juan Capistrano (California)
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