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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.

Marco Polo’s Travels
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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The Armenian Genocide Museum Institute
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Long Teaching Module: Women and Empire
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Short Teaching Module: Spatial Histories of Law, Race and Empire
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The Times of India Masthead
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Germaine de Staël, A French Writer Exiled by Napoleon
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Louis the Sixteenth, King of France and of Navarre
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Ceramic Female Figure from Ecuador
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Soviet Administrative Map, 1989
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Census of England, 1891
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Video of Ceausescu’s Last Speech, December 1989
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A Naval Encounter between Dutch and Spanish Warships
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Mameluke with a basket of flowers, 1641
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Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
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