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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.

Maya Vase with Mythological Scene, 7th-8th century
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Long Teaching Module: Children during the Black Death
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Girl Museum
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Kasai Velvet, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Tags and Throws on a SoHo Side Street
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Illustration from The Maqamat of al-Hariri
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Long Teaching Module: The Collapse of Yugoslavia
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Indian textile fragment, 14th-15th century
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Leon Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution
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Victorian Popular Culture
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Mabo Song
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Islamic Carpet made in Safavid Iran
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Shiva as the Lord of Dance
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Teaching Traditional Polynesian Navigation
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The Graham Children
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