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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.

Rashid graduates from Oregon Agricultural college, 1908
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Bronx Schoolyard
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Old Mission San Juan Bautista
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Short Teaching Module: Transnational Connections and the Long Cold War in Nicaragua
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Excerpt from Ledyard's Journal
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The World: Map of N. & S. America
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Nautical Chart, 1385
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Javanese Shadow Puppets
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Boke of Chyldren by Thomas Phaer
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"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
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Pestle Finial from Papua New Guinea
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Primer: A Global History of Higher Education
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Pacific Culture Areas Map
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Queens Rooftops, Seen From a Subway Platform
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Togo farm families cracking oil palm kernels
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