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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.

Multiplication with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Source Collection: Women and the Revolution
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Son of Saint–Louis Going Up to Heaven . . .
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A Continent Divided: The U.S. - Mexico War
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London Newspaper
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Misión Santa Cruz de San Sabá
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Photograph of "Principal Chiefs" from West Africa
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Sati Handprints
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapping
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An Ottoman “Bill of Rights”
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Age of Consent Laws
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Puerto Rican Needleworkers in a Factory, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1942
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The Philosophy of History
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Short Teaching Module: Play in Tokugawa Japan
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Puppeteers Painting
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