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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.

London's Bill of Mortality
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Ottoman Decree Regarding Protestants, 1850
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Apolitical Intellectuals/ Intelectuales Apolíticos
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Reunion
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Cuauhtémoc prisionero
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Map of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1768
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Photograph, Needleworker
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Primer: Technology
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Short Teaching Module: Christianity and Slavery in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1480s-1520s
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Short Teaching Module: European Maps of the Early Modern World
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Remains of Christopher Colombus
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Renunciation case against Gertrudis de Escobar, Mexico, 1659
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Map of Land Grant for Cornell University, 1877
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Apollo 11 Moonwalk
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Misión San Fernando Rey de España
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