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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.

Female Terracotta Figure
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Ayyubid and Ottoman Architecture
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Long Teaching Module: Bhakti Poets
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Claude Antoine Rozet Paintings
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Life Histories (Chile) Table
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Old Mission San Juan Bautista
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Tags and Throws on a SoHo Side Street
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Long Teaching Module: Women in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
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The Boy Prodigy: Xiang Tuo
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Short Teaching Module: Connecting Local and Global History via Mercantile Networks
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Mummified Inca Child Sacrifices
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Excerpt from Ledyard's Journal
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Photograph of "Principal Chiefs" from West Africa
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Women and Stalinism: Quantitative Evidence, Women's Education
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The Executive Abroad
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