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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.

Illustrations from Guaman Poma, El Primer Nueva Coránica y Buen Gobierno
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Mapping the Republic of Letters
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Maya Monument with glyphs, 4th-9th centuries
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Caribbean Sea Migration Collection
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Antonio Gramsci: Selections from The Prison Notebooks
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Excerpt from Ledyard's Journal
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Tobacco Workers
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Children and Daguerreotypes
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Misión San Fernando Rey de España
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Activity: Material Culture and Childhood (20th c.)
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Zoomorphic Figure from Papua New Guinea
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Torture in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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In Memoriam
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Robespierre 10 Thermidor—Exposition of 1877
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Susanna and the Elders
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