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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.

Immigrant Crossing Road Sign
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Source Collection: War, Terror, and Resistance to the French Revolution
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Romania and Its Neighbors
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Meroitic Script
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Invoice of goods shipped from New Orleans to Matamoros, Mexico in 1847
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"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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Shopping queue in Wrocław
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AAAS Defends Edward Condon from HUAC, 1948
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Peter Kolb Travel Narrative 2
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Short Teaching Unit: The Omani Empire and the Center of the Emerging Global Economy, 1500-1850
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World map by Henricus Martellus
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Advertisement for the Auction of the Ann’s Cargo, 1827
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Ceramic Female Figure from Ecuador
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Short Teaching Module: Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland
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Balzac’s The Chouans
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