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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: Spatial Histories of Law, Race and Empire
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Robespierre 10 Thermidor—Exposition of 1877
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The High-Caste Hindu Woman
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Poverty Point in Louisiana, United States
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The Chinese Boy and Girl
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The Natural History of a Chinese Girl
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Long Teaching Module: Children in the Slave Trade
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Primer: Rewriting of Sub-Saharan African History
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Short Teaching Module: Making Empire Global - British Imperialism in India, 1750-1800
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Short Teaching Module: Global Approaches to Maritime Trade in Colonial North America
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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: Remembering Tiananmen Square
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New Zealand, Maoris at Their Talking House
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Short Teaching Module: Global Microhistory and the Nineteenth-Century Omani Empire
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Cueva de los Manos, Rio Pinturas
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