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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.

The Bayeux Tapestry
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Puerto Rican Labor Movement and the 1940 Census
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The mayor of Lyon, France drives a bulldozer to initiate construction of social housing
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Legislative Palace of Uruguay
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“Drive the old and new colonialists out of Africa!” Propaganda Poster, 1964
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Mercator Projection
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Death Mask of Pancho Villa
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Source Collection: Korean Colonial-Era Children’s Literature
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Jewish Life in America
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Middle Passage
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Short Teaching Module: Roman Children’s Sarcophagi
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Short Teaching Module: Examining Early Genoese Voyages through Maps
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Source Collection: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution
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Business contract between Richard P. Waters and his Omani-Zanzibari trading partner, Esau bin Abdul Rahman
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Invoice of goods shipped from New Orleans to Matamoros, Mexico in 1847
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