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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.

Outward Cargo Manifest of the Rowena, 1841
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Source Collection: French Monarchy Falls
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Friendship
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Children and Daguerreotypes
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Porcelain tankard, fifteenth century China
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Sati Handprints
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Misión San Juan Capistrano (California)
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Lila-Pilipina Brochure
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Janabai
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Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980
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Short Teaching Module: Global Approaches to Maritime Trade in Colonial North America
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Short Teaching Module: Business History and Multilocal Approaches to World History
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Altar from the Classic Maya Period
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Studying for the mother country, 1986
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America Invertida (Inverted America)
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