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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.

Wooden Stockade on Penang Island, 18th century
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The Obelisk of Buenos Aires
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present
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Puppeteers Painting
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Sanitarium Weet-Bix Packet
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey
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Inca Khipu
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Remains of Christopher Colombus
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Hobo-Dyer Projection Worldmap
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Frederick Engels: Socialism, Utopic and Scientific
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 4
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Ottoman Decree Regarding Protestants, 1850
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Cartoon Mocking British Policy toward India, 1788
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Misión San Francisco de Asís
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Short Teaching Module: Slavery, Labor, and Gender
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