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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.

London Newspaper
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Long Teaching Module: Children during the Black Death
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Long Teaching Module: Caribbean Seafaring in the Archaic Age (2000-400 BC)
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Solidarity Commemorates Tiananmen Square
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Misión San Juan Capistrano
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Misión San Miguel (New Mexico)
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Short Teaching Module: Cultural Exchange Before Modern Times
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The Bayeux Tapestry
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Children and Toys
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The Squirt Gun
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The Ethics of Christianity and Confucianism Compared
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The Good Sans–Culotte
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Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
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Slave Coffle, Central Africa, 1861
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Wooden Stockade on Penang Island, 18th century
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