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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.

Mahabodhi Temple
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Olympic Games Poster, Stockholm, 1912.
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Meiji Japan
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Short Teaching Module: Consumerism in Poland
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Misión San Gabriel Arcángel
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Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
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Selden Map
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The Drunkard
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Javanese Shadow Puppets
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Peter Kolb Travel Narrative 2
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Division with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Short Teaching Module: Making Empire Global - British Imperialism in India, 1750-1800
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Toys
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Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
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Grid Map of Judicial Independence
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