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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.

Lord Kitchener, “Birth of Ghana,” 1957
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Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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John Smith's Map of Virginia 1624
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Sumerian School Days
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Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves
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Short Teaching Module: A Human History of Commodities
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Misión San Lorenzo de Picuris
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Little Women, “The Valley of the Shadow”
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Sorghaghtani Beki and Tolui
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Short Teaching Module: History of the Pacific Ocean
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Shopping queue in Wrocław
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Small Terracotta Male
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Census of 1910 tuberculosis data
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Soviet Nationalities Map, 1989
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Illustration from The Maqamat of al-Hariri
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