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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.

Map of Land Grant for Cornell University, 1877
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Marshall Islands Stick Charts
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Glikl
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"Resolutely support the just struggle of the American Blacks!" Propaganda Poster, 1963
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Battle For and Taking of Ratisbon, April 23, 1809
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Short Teaching Module: Portraying Women Workers: Beyond Norma Rae
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Short Teaching Module: Indian Immigrants and U.S. Citizenship in an Imperial Context
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Napoleon Is Unable to Digest Leipzig
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Disciplining Children in the Codex Mendoza
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Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi 2
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Primer: A Global History of Higher Education
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The Ancient History of the Maori
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The Squirt Gun
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Misión San Estévan del Rey de Ácoma
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Seventeenth Century Metal Helmet
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