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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.

Short Teaching Module: Music and Decolonization in the Black Atlantic
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Egyptian Mummy Coffin
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The Sugar Mill
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Primer: Rewriting of Sub-Saharan African History
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Treaties Between the VOC and the Spice Islands
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Two Peasants Repairing a Cart
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Christopher Columbus monument, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Tomoe Gozen
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Britannia Rules the Waves!!
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Analyzing Material Objects
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Short Teaching Module: History of the Pacific Ocean
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Photograph of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Activist
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AAAS Defends Edward Condon from HUAC, 1948
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Disciplining Children in the Codex Mendoza
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Short Teaching Module: Agricultural Knowledge in the Late Nineteenth Century
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