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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.

Cecil Rhodes monument removal, Cape Town, South Africa
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Short Teaching Module: Business History and Multilocal Approaches to World History
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Short Teaching Module: Teaching the Intersection of Gender and Race through Colonial Medical Texts
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Short Teaching Module: Sick Men in Mid-Nineteenth-Century International Relations
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Map of Ichan Qala
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Memoirs and Poems of Phillis Wheatley
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The Emperor and the Imperial Guard on the Island of Elba
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Meeting of the Emperors at Tilsit
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Bronx Schoolyard
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The Moundbuilders' Art: A Confluence of 'Ingenuity, Industry, and Elegance'
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Health Ordinances of Pistoia, 1348
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapping
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London's Bill of Mortality
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 1
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The French Nation Defeats Despotism
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