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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.

Short Teaching Module: East Asian Developmental States in Global History
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The Ancient History of the Maori
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Commonwealth of Independent States, Map 1994
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Women’s Work for Woman
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi
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The Good Sans–Culotte
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Pound Homestead
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The Obelisk of Buenos Aires
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A Poem by Victor Hugo (1830)
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Gender Roles among the Nahua in the Codex Mendoza
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Short Teaching Module: Colonialism and Local Power
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Video: Indian Boy Scouts at 1929 World Jamboree
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Outward Cargo Manifest of the Rowena, 1841
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Short Teaching Module: Children, Culture, and Folktales
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London's Bill of Mortality
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