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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.

Bamboo River II, Tale of Genji Painting Scroll
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Fundraising for Palestinian Families in Jerusalem
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Health Ordinances of Pistoia, 1348
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The Mode of Exterminating the Black Army as Practised by the French
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Long Teaching Module: Caribbean Seafaring in the Archaic Age (2000-400 BC)
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Javanese Shadow Puppets
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“Aparición de San Isidoro al Rey Fernando el Santo ante los muros de Sevilla” by Francisco de Goya
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Short Teaching Module: Girlhood and Little Women
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“Africae Novo” Map
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Laws of Manu
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 3
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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Crucifix (Nkangi Kiditu)
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Kant, The Contest of Faculties
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Tree Rings as Climate Archive
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