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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.

Minecraft Education
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The Times of India Masthead
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The Dance of Death
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Long Teaching Module: Children during the Black Death
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Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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Long Teaching Module: Education in the Middle East, 1200-2010
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Business contract between Richard P. Waters and his Omani-Zanzibari trading partner, Esau bin Abdul Rahman
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List of Foreign Arrivals in the Port of Zanzibar from the 16th September 1832 to 26th May 1835
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Page from the Pentaglot Manchu Glossary
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Map of Europe, 1918
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Veritable Records of the Chosŏn Dynasty
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Mounted Mongol Warriors
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Page from Qing Veritable Records
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Short Teaching Module: Orphans and Colonialism (17th c.)
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Ginger bread recipe
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