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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.

Maya Monument with glyphs, 4th-9th centuries
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Courage
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The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto
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Slave Coffle, Central Africa, 1861
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Seventeenth Century Metal Helmet
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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
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Census of 1910 tuberculosis data
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Cantino planisphere
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
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Photograph of "Principal Chiefs" from West Africa
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Birth Rituals in the Codex Mendoza
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Huun-Huur-Tu Throat Singers
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Women Writers Project
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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Short Teaching Module: Orphans and Colonialism (17th c.)
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