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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.

Tu'i Tonga Empire Map
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"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi 2
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Lila-Pilipina Brochure
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X-ray of a cross-section of a coral core
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List of Foreign Arrivals in the Port of Zanzibar from the 16th September 1832 to 26th May 1835
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Remains of the Stargate Canoe
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Chilean Consul Writes of Immigrants Needing Assistance, 1864
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Short Teaching Module: Consumerism in Poland
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Remains of Christopher Colombus
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I Am Called Cerberus but Am Also a Chameleon: Napoleon Being Sucked into Hell
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Short Teaching Module: Girlhood and Little Women
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Soviet Map, 1982
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AAAS Defends Edward Condon from HUAC, 1948
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Wolff’s justification for omitting hay values
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