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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.

Bone comb
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Misión San Miguel (New Mexico)
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Misión San Francisco de Asís (California)
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The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
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Edward Waring on Borax as medicine in India
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The Trabant
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Page from the Pentaglot Manchu Glossary
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Efforts at Controlling Yellow Fever
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Lady Florentia Sale Diary
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The League of Nations Archive
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Short Teaching Module: Portraying Women Workers: Beyond Norma Rae
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X-ray of a cross-section of a coral core
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Susanna and the Elders
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Anonymous Portrait
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The Royal and Imperial Family of Napoleon
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