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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.

Peter Kolb Travel Narrative 2
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Rajah Rammohun Roy Excerpts
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The Boy Prodigy: Xiang Tuo
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Long Teaching Module: Children during the Black Death
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Long Teaching Module: Nationalities and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, 1989-2000
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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
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Queens Rooftops, Seen From a Subway Platform
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Southern Manchuria Railway (1906-1945)
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Early Modern Counter
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Organization of British Imperial Scouting
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Outward Cargo Manifest of the Rowena, 1841
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Ethnic Groups in Yugoslavia
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1841 Letter from Atkins Hamerton
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Islamic Carpets
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Pacific Culture Areas Map
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