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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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The Great Heroism of the Nineteenth Century
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Misión Basilica San Diego de Alcalá
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Lord Kitchener, “Birth of Ghana,” 1957
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Bar Miztvah
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Misión San Francisco de la Espada
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Business contract between Richard P. Waters and his Omani-Zanzibari trading partner, Esau bin Abdul Rahman
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America Invertida (Inverted America)
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Hakluyt's The Principall Investigations
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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Short Teaching Module: Codex Mendoza (16th c.)
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Liberty
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Excerpt from The History of Mary Prince
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Ship
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New Zealand, Maoris at Their Talking House
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