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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.

Tags and Throws on a SoHo Side Street
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Tree Rings as Climate Archive
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Wooden Triptych
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The Ancient History of the Maori
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Nisa, The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak
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Portón de Campo
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San Antonio Convent
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Short Teaching Module: Building Materials as an Indicator of Transnational Encounters in Malaysia
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Photograph of “Indian Tableaux at Endon”
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London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800
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Official Document, Police Letter
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Disciplining Children in the Codex Mendoza
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Mexico Cartoon, 1846
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Disinfection of Dakar houses with a Clayton Apparatus
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Source Collection: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution
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