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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.

Lapita Pottery from the Santa Cruz Islands
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"The Problems of Third World Development"
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Short Teaching Module: Borderland Migration and Communities in Twentieth-Century West Africa
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 3
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Photograph of "Principal Chiefs" from West Africa
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Electing the House of Representatives
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Huaca Pucllana, Ancient Pyramid in Peru
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Javanese Shadow Puppets
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Brochure for the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition / Charleston Exposition, 1901-1902
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History of the Earth in a Cycle
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Sati Engraving, Burning a Hindoo Widow
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Old Mission Santa Barbara
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Ptolemy's World Map
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A Hindu Princess Committing Sati against the Wishes of Emperor Akbar
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The World's Fairs
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