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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.

Nuestra Señora de la Bahía del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga
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Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
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Short Teaching Module: East Asian Developmental States in Global History
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The Half-Male, Half-Female Form of Shiva (Shiva Ardhanarishvara)
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Fundraising for Palestinian Families in Jerusalem
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 2
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Long Teaching Module: Children’s Health in Early Modern England
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Source Collection: Analyzing Historic Churches in the Southwestern US
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Short Teaching Module: Childhood and Transatlantic Slavery
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Studying for the mother country, 1986
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Misión San Gregorio de Abó
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Memoirs and Poems of Phillis Wheatley
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The Obelisk of Buenos Aires
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Pittsburgh Newspaper Article “Bank Gives Boost to Black Areas”
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Abuses to Suppress
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