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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.

Short Teaching Module: Play in Tokugawa Japan
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Abuses to Suppress
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A Grateful France Proclaims Napoleon the First Emperor of the Frence
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Long Teaching Module: Education in the Middle East, 1200-2010
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Ruins of the Convento de San Francisco
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Sewing Classes at Mount Margaret Mission
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Ship Plan of a Late-19th Century Steamship
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Inca Miniature Tunic
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Woman with Lenin/Stalin Flag
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Bone comb
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Wooden Stockade on Penang Island, 18th century
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Guang yutu map
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Child Re-enacting Krishna Story
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Malleus Maleficarum, Witch Hunter Manual
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Long Teaching Module: Caribbean Seafaring in the Archaic Age (2000-400 BC)
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