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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.

The Times of India Masthead
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Misión San Gabriel Arcángel
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Mameluke with a basket of flowers, 1641
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Romania and Its Neighbors
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Seventeenth Century Metal Helmet
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Akan Gold-Weight in the Shape of the Sankofa Bird
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Shiva as the Lord of Dance
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Mr. de Lafayette, Commander of the Paris National Guard, Receives the City’s 'Sword for the Defense of Liberty'
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Louis XVI and His Family (20 January 1793)
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World History Encyclopedia
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Long Teaching Module: Sati
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View of the Coffee Plantation Marienbosch in Surinam
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Japanese American Incarceration, Interview
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From John Bartholomew, Literary and historical atlas of America
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Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque
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