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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.

Primer: Global Microhistory
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Portrait of Gaspar Sánchez
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Video: Boy Scouts at 1929 World Jamboree Perform as Native Americans
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HMM Algeciras
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi 2
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The High-Caste Hindu Woman
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Anonymous Portrait
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Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
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Excerpt from "A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689"
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Remains of Christopher Colombus
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Video: March of Flags from 1929 Boy Scout World Jamboree
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Excerpt from Ledyard's Journal
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List of Foreign Arrivals in the Port of Zanzibar from the 16th September 1832 to 26th May 1835
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Misión San Miguel (California)
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The Ancient History of the Maori
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