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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.

Terakoya vs. Meiji School
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Pestle Finial from Papua New Guinea
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Sire, They Are My Sons and My Wife
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Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
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Misión San Francisco de Solano
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Joyous Celebration at the New Year
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 2
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Slave Coffle, Central Africa, 1861
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Source Collection: War, Terror, and Resistance to the French Revolution
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Babylonian Map Tablet
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Early Modern Counter
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Short Teaching Module: Making Empire Global - British Imperialism in India, 1750-1800
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Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi
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Guang yutu map
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The Obelisk of Buenos Aires
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