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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.

Photographs from the Papal Visit of 1987
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Manifest Record from the S.S. Atenas
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M. Cornelius Statius
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Neolithic Bone Flutes
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula
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Interview with Sa’ida Jarallah
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Torture in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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Louis the Sixteenth, King of France and of Navarre
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Invoice of goods shipped from New Orleans to Matamoros, Mexico in 1847
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Short Teaching Module: Teaching the Intersection of Gender and Race through Colonial Medical Texts
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Ancient Courses: Mississippi River Meander Belt
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Death Mask of Pancho Villa
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Treaty of Versailles
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Page from the Pentaglot Manchu Glossary
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The Sugar Mill
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