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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.

Louis XVI distributes aid to the Poor
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Peter Kolb Travel Narrative 2
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Mesoamerican Pictogram
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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Yamamoto Shunshō’s The Tale of Genji
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Zoomorphic Figure from Papua New Guinea
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Letter from the Nicaraguan embassy
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Shipping Company Route Map from 1889
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Ha’amonga ‘a Maui in Tonga
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Indian textile fragment, 14th-15th century
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Map of Land Grant for Cornell University, 1877
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I Am Called Cerberus but Am Also a Chameleon: Napoleon Being Sucked into Hell
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Anonymous Portrait
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Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Learning and Research
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Long Teaching Module: Children in Ancient China
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