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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.

Enslaved and Free Blacks in Saint Domingue
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Maya Deity-Face Jade Pendant, 7th-8th century
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Queens Rooftops, Seen From a Subway Platform
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Middle Passage
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John Stuart Mill on the French Revolution
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Meroitic Script
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Mounted Mongol Warriors
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Long Teaching Module: “Reading” Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
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Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Louis Leaves His Family
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Catharina Schrader
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The Jingban tianwen quantu Map of the World
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Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home
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Sumerian School Days
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Maguire Residence
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