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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.

Health Ordinances of Pistoia, 1348
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Hagia Sophia Floor Plan
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Early Modern Dutch and English Propaganda
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Competitive Journalism
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Small Terracotta Male
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Short Teaching Module: Christianity and Slavery in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1480s-1520s
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Short Teaching Module: Building Materials as an Indicator of Transnational Encounters in Malaysia
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The Philosophy of History
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Temple of Vespasian altar
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The Foreign Travels and Dangerous Voyages of Sir John Mandeville, 14th Century
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Coin minted by Constantine
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National Academy of Sciences objects to political persecution of Condon, 1948
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Wearing Gay History
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"Resolutely support the just struggle of the American Blacks!" Propaganda Poster, 1963
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Lord Ismay Notice Regarding Indian Partition
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