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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.

Bronx Schoolyard
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Kilwa Map Illustration
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Dona Marina, Cortes’ Translator: Painting, Santa Barraza
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Hippolyte Taine on the French Revolution
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La Exaltación de la Santa Cruz Mission
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Letter to Panduranga Joshi Kulkarni
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Misión San Francisco de Asís
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Mabo Song
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A gold dinar of Abd al-Malik minted in Damascus in 697/98
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Long Teaching Module: The Collapse of Yugoslavia
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Islamic Carpet made in Ottoman Turkey at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Short Teaching Module: Roman Children’s Sarcophagi
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Francois Guilbeau letter on Loredo trade
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Primer: Transnational Mobility and State Formation
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Three-Character Classic
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