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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.

Tracing Canoe Pathways in the Lesser Antilles, 2000 BE - 400 BC
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Division with an Early Modern Counting Board
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National Assembly Relinquishes All Privileges
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Invoice of goods shipped from New Orleans to Matamoros, Mexico in 1847
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Teaching LGBTQ History
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Child Re-enacting Krishna Story
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Edifying and curious letters of some Missioners of the Society of Jesus from foreign missions
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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
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“Drive the old and new colonialists out of Africa!” Propaganda Poster, 1964
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Day of Saint-Cloud
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Seventeenth Century Metal Helmet
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Life Histories (Chile) Table
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Missionary Journal, Chinese Culture
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Lord Kitchener, “Birth of Ghana,” 1957
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Inca Miniature Tunic
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