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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.

Long Teaching Module: Women in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
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Africae tabula noua
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Pittsburgh Newspaper Article “Bank Gives Boost to Black Areas”
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African Studies Center
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Short Teaching Module: Spatial Histories of Law, Race and Empire
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Lord Kitchener, “Birth of Ghana,” 1957
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Divorce in the Soviet Union
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Sati Handprints
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Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
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Rashid graduates from Oregon Agricultural college, 1908
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The Squirt Gun
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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture A Native of Africa
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Source Collection: Korean Colonial-Era Children’s Literature
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Multiplication with an Early Modern Counting Board
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A Naval Encounter between Dutch and Spanish Warships
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