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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.

Lady Florentia Sale Diary
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Sanitarium Weet-Bix Packet
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Primer: Commodities
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Primer: Global Microhistory
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Analyzing Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
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Short Teaching Module: Translation and a World History of the Qing Empire
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Louis as No More Than a Man
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A Hindu Princess Committing Sati against the Wishes of Emperor Akbar
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Sati Engraving: A Gentoo Woman Burning Herself
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Terakoya vs. Meiji School
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Lord Ismay Notice Regarding Indian Partition
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Early Modern Dutch and English Propaganda
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The Dutch Ambassador on his Way to Isfahan
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1996 New Zealand Census Information
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American and Zanzibari Trade Contract, 1841
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