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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.

Cortés Greets Xicotencatl in Mexican Manuscript
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Adding and Subtracting with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Enslaved and Free Blacks in Saint Domingue
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People Reading the Gazette
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Altar from the Classic Maya Period
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Old Mission San Juan Bautista
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Efforts at Controlling Yellow Fever
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Navigational Charts Based on Those Used by Zheng He
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Making African Connections
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Cueva de los Manos, Rio Pinturas
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Mameluke with a basket of flowers, 1641
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Printed Cloth of the Directory and Napoleon
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Syllabus: Women and Gender in World History, 600-2000
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Bill of Lading of a ship from Piscataqua to Bilbao in Spain, 1721
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Gold Solidus of Justinian I (527–65)
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