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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.

Food
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Studying for the mother country, 1986
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Germany: Memories of a Nation
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Mameluke with a basket of flowers, 1641
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Letter to Council Women
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Puppeteers Painting
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StoryMapJS: Maps that Tell Stories
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Short Teaching Module: Slavery, Labor, and Gender
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"We can stop this Makapuu madness!"
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Official Document, Police Letter
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai
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Cartoon about the Ottoman Empire
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Primer: Gender in World History
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Pestle Finial from Papua New Guinea
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Small Terracotta Male
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