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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.

Photograph, Needleworker
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The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto
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"To the Spirits of Camila O'Gorman"
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The Children of Edward Holden Cruttenden
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Soviet Administrative Map, 1989
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The Acropolis Museum
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The Cathedral of Buenos Aires
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Cecil Rhodes monument removal, Cape Town, South Africa
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Short Teaching Module: European Maps of the Early Modern World
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Buddha Sheltered by a Naga
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Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
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Teatro Nacional Cervantes
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M. Cornelius Statius
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Mapping the Republic of Letters
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Remains of Christopher Colombus
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