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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.

Short Teaching Module: Portraying Women Workers: Beyond Norma Rae
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Short Teaching Module: Agricultural Knowledge in the Late Nineteenth Century
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An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
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Cecil Rhodes monument, Cape Town, South Africa
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Early Modern Ottoman Carpet at the Walters Art Museum
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The Butcher Shop, Warsaw
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Short Teaching Module: European Maps of the Early Modern World
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Primer: Comparative History
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Enslaved and Free Blacks in Saint Domingue
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 2
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Meiji Japan
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Short Teaching Module: Connecting Local and Global History via Mercantile Networks
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Quilted bedcover of Elisabeth Chapman
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Oath of the New Horaces
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Apollo 11 Moonwalk
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