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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.

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula
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Lisbon Port Entry List for Colonial American Ships, 1771
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Peter Kropotkin on the Need for Individual Action
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Female Terracotta Figure
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Fertility and Abortion in Czechoslovakia, 1950-2005
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Plans for Social Housing in France
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Decameron
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Age of Consent Laws
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Mijikenda textiles
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Short Teaching Module: Nineteenth-Century American Trade on Zanzibar
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Indian textile fragment, 14th-15th century
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Rajah Rammohun Roy Excerpts
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 2
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Babylonian Map Tablet
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Islam on the Ebb
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