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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: Precolonial Kenya, a Small-Scale History
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Short Teaching Module: Portraying Women Workers: Beyond Norma Rae
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History of Pre-Modern Math
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Short Teaching Module: Christianity and Slavery in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1480s-1520s
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Short Teaching Module: Codex Mendoza (16th c.)
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Fourteenth-Century Chinese Dragon
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Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis
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The Moundbuilders' Art: A Confluence of 'Ingenuity, Industry, and Elegance'
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 4
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Lila-Pilipina Brochure
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Tear Down this Wall
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Primer: Rewriting of Sub-Saharan African History
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In Memoriam
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Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie
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