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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.

Primer: Borderlands History
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GDP in Yugoslavia: 1980-1989
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Rashid graduates from Oregon Agricultural college, 1908
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Short Teaching Module: Spatial Histories of Law, Race and Empire
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Primer: Transnational Mobility and State Formation
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Source Collection: French Monarchy Falls
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Hagia Sophia Floor Plan
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Portrait of Francisco López de Solís
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Showa Steelworks in Anshan (Northeast China)
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Togo farm families cracking oil palm kernels
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 3
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New Netherland Institute
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Early Modern Ottoman Carpet at the Walters Art Museum
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Peter Kolb Travel Narrative 2
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Long Teaching Module: Women in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
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