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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.

Mercator Projection, Eurasia Centered
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Primer: Transnational Mobility and State Formation
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The Philosophy of History
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Ptolemy's World Map
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Huun-Huur-Tu Throat Singers
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Reception of the Envoys from Kandy in Colombo
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Primer: Rewriting of Sub-Saharan African History
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Source Collection: Pennsylvania Newspapers React to Refugees from Haitian Revolution
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Photographs from the Papal Visit of 1987
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Misión San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo
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Source Collection: Evolution of Rights in Saint Domingue
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The Cathedral of Buenos Aires
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Official Document, Police Letter
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“Big Business Banishes the Flapper"
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Inside the Decisive Network
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