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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.

Child Re-enacting Krishna Story
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Antonio Gramsci: Selections from The Prison Notebooks
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SOS Avenir Minguettes President Toumi Djaïdja in Lyon, France
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Departure of the Three Orders for Versailles
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Museo Regional de Oriente
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Malleus Maleficarum, Witch Hunter Manual
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Gold Solidus of Justinian I (527–65)
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Auction
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Misión Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña
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Japanese Mercenaries in Early Modern Southeast Asia
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Printing Press
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Kasai Velvet, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Short Teaching Module: Graffiti, Gender, and Youth (20th c.)
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
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Map of the Outskirts of Mexico City
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