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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.

Short Teaching Module: Play in Tokugawa Japan
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Primer: Comparative History
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Pacific Culture Areas Map
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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Leon Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution
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Hicky's Bengal Gazette
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Mounted Mongol Warriors
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London's Bill of Mortality
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey
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Misión San Estévan del Rey de Ácoma
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Transplanting Teeth
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Son of Saint–Louis Going Up to Heaven . . .
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Map of the Philippines, 1734
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Long Teaching Module: Education in the Middle East, 1200-2010
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Enslaved and Free Blacks in Saint Domingue
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