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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.

Catalan Map of the World, c.1450
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Primer: Rewriting of Sub-Saharan African History
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Long Teaching Module: Exploring Empire through the Lens of Childhood and Gender
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Puerto Rican Labor Movement and the 1940 Census
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Printing Press
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Misión San Francisco de Asís (California)
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Page from Qing Veritable Records
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Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas
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Zoomorphic Figure from Papua New Guinea
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Source Collection: War, Terror, and Resistance to the French Revolution
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Tree Rings as Climate Archive
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Long Teaching Module: Children in Ancient China
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People Reading the Gazette
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Portrait of Francisco López de Solís
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Solidarity Election Poster, “High Noon, 4 June 1989”
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