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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.

Nok Terracotta Sculptures
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Marshall Islands stick chart
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Sati Engraving: A Gentoo Woman Burning Herself
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Altar from the Classic Maya Period
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Competitive Journalism
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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The School Journal, 1907 - [Magazine]
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Workers’ Celebration
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Mexicana: A Repository of Cultural Patrimony in Mexico
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Rajah Rammohun Roy Excerpts
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The Whole Duty of Woman
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Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi
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The Graham Children
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Short Teaching Module: Early Modern Islamic Carpets as Transcultural Objects
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Short Teaching Module: Race, Gender, and Transnational Histories of Solidarity
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