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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.

Slave Coffle, Central Africa, 1861
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Ark (Wooden Chest with Iron Locks)
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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Short Teaching Module: Connecting Local and Global History via Mercantile Networks
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Visualizing Energy:
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San José de Guadalupe
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Misión Santa Inés
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Slavery, Law, & Power
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"Resolutely support the just struggle of the American Blacks!" Propaganda Poster, 1963
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Lady Florentia Sale Diary
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1919 Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum Annual Report
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Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque
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Oath of the New Horaces
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Long Teaching Module: The Catholic Church in Poland, 1950-2000
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London's Bill of Mortality
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