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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.

Vending Machine
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Short Teaching Module: A Human History of Commodities
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Photograph of Fatima the Moroccan
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Misión San Francisco de la Espada
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Tracing Canoe Pathways in the Lesser Antilles, 2000 BE - 400 BC
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 3
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Short Teaching Module: Consumerism in Poland
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Letter from the Nicaraguan embassy
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Inside the Decisive Network
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Maya Monument with glyphs, 4th-9th centuries
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The Jingban tianwen quantu Map of the World
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Short Teaching Module: Music and Decolonization in the Black Atlantic
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Captured Africans Liberated from a Slaving Vessel
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The Foreign Relations of the United States Series
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Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis
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