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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.

Akan Gold-Weight in the Shape of the Sankofa Bird
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Long Teaching Module: Economies in Transition in Eastern Europe, 1970-1990
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Misión San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
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Short Teaching Module: Business History and Multilocal Approaches to World History
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Germaine de Staël, A French Writer Exiled by Napoleon
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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Division with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Naval History and Heritage Command
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World Heritage Site Map
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A Mother's Power
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Ptolemy's World Map
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Nautical Chart, 1385
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The High-Caste Hindu Woman
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Hagia Sophia
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Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
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