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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.

Primer: Imperialism
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Least Cost Pathway Analysis Showing Movement Across a Landscape
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Japanese Mercenaries in Early Modern Southeast Asia
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Louis XVI distributes aid to the Poor
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BaAka Women Dancing the Hunting Dance, Ndambo
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The Gall-Peters Projection
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Primer: Transnational Mobility and State Formation
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Chinese Migrants to U.S. by way of Mexico
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Short Teaching Module: Sick Men in Mid-Nineteenth-Century International Relations
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The Dutch Ambassador on his Way to Isfahan
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Sumerian School Days
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Map of the Travels of Xuanzang (629 AD - 645 AD) Journey to the West
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Primer: Rewriting of Sub-Saharan African History
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Short Teaching Module: Early Modern Islamic Carpets as Transcultural Objects
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Coin minted by Constantine
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