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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.

Shipping Company Route Map from 1889
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Long Teaching Module: “Reading” Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture A Native of Africa
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Portrait of Manuel Mansilla
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Map of Land Grant for Cornell University, 1877
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Child Re-enacting Krishna Story
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Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
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Edifying and curious letters of some Missioners of the Society of Jesus from foreign missions
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Two Peasants Repairing a Cart
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Map of the Range of Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, 1962
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Africae tabula noua
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Misión San Francisco de Asís (California)
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The Gall-Peters Projection
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Ha’amonga ‘a Maui in Tonga
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"How Some Children Played at Slaughtering"
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