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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.

Hakluyt's The Principall Investigations
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Misión Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña
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Nuestra Señora de Purísima Concepción de Quarai
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Short Teaching Module: Connecting the French Empire
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Middle Passage
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Two Girls Carrying Children
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Wearing Gay History
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Francois Guilbeau letter on Loredo trade
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Sati Engraving, Burning a Hindoo Widow
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Gold Solidus of Justinian I (527–65)
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Multiplication with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Long Teaching Module: Caribbean Seafaring in the Archaic Age (2000-400 BC)
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Misión San Rafael Arcángel
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The Taoist Priest of Lao-Shan
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A Visual Guide to the Cold War
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