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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.

Travel writing of al-Biruni, 11th century Persian scholar
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Newspaper report on Eva Peron's Death
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Gulhane Proclamation
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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Connections and the Long Cold War in Nicaragua
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Women’s Work for Woman
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Coin minted by Constantine
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Wooden Stockade on Penang Island, 18th century
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The Mercator Projection
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Statistics on Catholicism in Poland after the fall of Communism
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Small Terracotta Male
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Source Collection: War, Terror, and Resistance to the French Revolution
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Primer: The History of Globalization
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry: A Look at History and Popular Culture
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Huun-Huur-Tu Throat Singers
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