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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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Seventeenth Century Metal Helmet
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Long Teaching Module: Women and the Puerto Rican Labor Movement
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Woman with Lenin/Stalin Flag
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Devshirme System
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Celebrating Napoleon's Birthday on the Island of St. Helena
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Long Teaching Module: Women and Empire
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Diapers
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A gold dinar of Abd al-Malik minted in Damascus in 697/98
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New Zealand, Maoris at Their Talking House
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Primer: Rewriting of Sub-Saharan African History
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Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del Socorro
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Cartoon Mocking British Policy toward India, 1788
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San José de Guadalupe
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British Police Station, Rasah, Malaysia
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