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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.

Ethiopian Healing Scrolls
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Short Teaching Module: Orphans and Colonialism (17th c.)
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Short Teaching Module: Science, Technology, and the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex during the Cold War
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Museo Regional de Oriente
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The happy life Chairman Mao gave us, 1954
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Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
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Pound Homestead
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The Chinese Boy and Girl
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"Yellow fever in Dakar – There is no epidemic"
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Mercator Projection
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Map of Poverty in Mexico
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The Griots of West Africa
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Disciplining Children in the Codex Mendoza
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Peter Kolb Travel Narrative 2
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Inside the Decisive Network
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