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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.

Sumerian School Days
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Disinfection of Dakar houses with a Clayton Apparatus
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Monks Learning to Exercise.
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Islamic Carpets
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Louis XVI and His Family (20 January 1793)
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Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980
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Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
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Egyptian Mummy Coffin
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Noticias de Portugal
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Ptolemy's World Map
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The Dance of Death
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Bone comb
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Scotland Forever
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Photograph of "Principal Chiefs" from West Africa
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Mao Tse-tung's Statement Regarding Racial Discrimination in the United States, 1963
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