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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.

Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 2
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South African Native Affairs Commission report on education
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Moai on Easter Island
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Engraving of a Rechentisch (Counting Board)
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History of Pre-Modern Math
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Glikl
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Temple of Vespasian altar
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Salisbury Crags
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A letter from U.S. President Andrew Jackson to the Senate Dated Washington, May 30, 1834
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Rights of Man
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Marshall Islands Stick Charts
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Portrait of Hernán Cortés
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Egyptian Mummy Coffin
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Suffrage Atelier Postcard, 1909
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"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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