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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.

Pound Homestead
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Short Teaching Module: Precolonial Kenya, a Small-Scale History
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Bone comb
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Short Teaching Module: Childhood and Transatlantic Slavery
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Primer: A Global History of Higher Education
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The Great Heroism of the Nineteenth Century
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapping
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Cecil Rhodes monument, Cape Town, South Africa
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The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto
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Battle of Aboukir
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Speech by U.S. Civil Rights Leader Robert Williams, 1966
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Susanna and the Elders
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Video: Indian Boy Scouts at 1929 World Jamboree
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Schools for the Education of Chinese Girls
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The Drunkard
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