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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.

San Ysidro and San Buenaventura de Humanas (Gran Quivira)
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Primer: Comparative History
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Catharina Schrader
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Women Writers Project
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Showa Steelworks in Anshan (Northeast China)
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Visualizing Energy:
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Three-Character Classic
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Map of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1768
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Parque Lage
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Louis Leaves His Family
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National Museum of Asian Art
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Short Teaching Module: Slavery, Labor, and Gender
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Gold dinar depicting Caliph Abd al-Malik
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Lapita Pottery from the Santa Cruz Islands
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Short Teaching Module: Teaching the Intersection of Gender and Race through Colonial Medical Texts
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