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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.

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapping
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The Taoist Priest of Lao-Shan
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Ethnic Groups in Yugoslavia
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The Drunkard
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Long Teaching Module: Cultural Contact in Southern Africa
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Short Teaching Module: Slavery, Labor, and Gender
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An Ottoman “Bill of Rights”
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Mabo Song
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Florence Farmborough’s Journal
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Least Cost Pathway Analysis Showing Movement Across a Landscape
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W.E.B. DuBois Details the 1919 Pan-African Congress in Newspaper Article
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Long Teaching Module: Nationalities and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1989-2000
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Missionary Journal, Chinese Culture
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Oath of the New Horaces
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Game of the Great Men, Minot the Elder
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