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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.

Short Teaching Module: Colonialism and Local Power
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History of NATO Expansion Map
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey
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Chinese Migrants to U.S. by way of Mexico
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Least Cost Pathway Analysis Showing Movement Across a Landscape
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Long Teaching Module: Women and the Puerto Rican Labor Movement
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Long Teaching Module: Children in Ancient China
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Mijikenda textiles
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Primer: Global Urban History
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Wooden Triptych
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The Sugar Mill
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Official Document, Police Letter
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Islam on the Ebb
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Togo farm families cracking oil palm kernels
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Aztec Skull Earring, 16th Century
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