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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 Deity-Face Jade Pendant, 7th-8th century
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The Dutch Ambassador on his Way to Isfahan
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Florence Farmborough’s Journal
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The Exorcism: Ridding France of the Devil Napoleon
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Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
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Will-making among the general populace of Bologna during 1348
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Te Paranihi, or Maori War Canoe
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The Mercator Projection
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Rashid graduates from Oregon Agricultural college, 1908
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Ptolemy's World Map
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Age of Consent Laws
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Short Teaching Module: Spatial Histories of Law, Race and Empire
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A Mother's Power
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Kasai Velvet, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Ruins of the Convento de San Francisco
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