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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.

Artwork by Calixto MamanĂ­
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Ptolemy's World Map
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Food
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I Am Called Cerberus but Am Also a Chameleon: Napoleon Being Sucked into Hell
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Slavery, Law, & Power
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Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
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Rights of Man
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Soviet Administrative Map, 1989
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London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800
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Long Teaching Module: The Romanian Revolution of 1989
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Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
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Ptolemy's World Map
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The Turin Beatus Map of the World
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Short Teaching Module: Precolonial Kenya, a Small-Scale History
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Old Mission San Juan Bautista
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