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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: Global Approaches to Maritime Trade in Colonial North America
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Macroeconomic Indicators in Czechoslovakia 1970-1990
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Photograph, Needleworker
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Kasai Velvet, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Moai on Easter Island
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Portrait of General Artigas
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Children and Daguerreotypes
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Popular World Development Indicators for Four Caribbean Countries
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George Browne “Freedom for Ghana”
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First Sounds of the Hymn of Independence
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Will-making among the general populace of Bologna during 1348
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Syllabus: Women and Gender in World History, 600-2000
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Tomoe Gozen
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Visualizing Energy:
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Excerpt from The History of Mary Prince
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