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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.

Marco Polo’s Travels
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Childhood Obesity in the United States
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Tear Down this Wall
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Post-Soviet Population Table, 2006
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Mesoamerican Pictogram
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The Gall-Peters Projection
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Catalan Map of the World, c.1450
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Alexis de Tocqueville on the French Revolution
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Ptolemy's World Map
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Statistics on Catholicism in Poland after the fall of Communism
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Original Manuscripts of Anne Frank
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Florence Farmborough’s Journal
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San Ysidro and San Buenaventura de Humanas (Gran Quivira)
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Ayyubid and Ottoman Architecture
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Indian textile fragment, 14th-15th century
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