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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.

Long Teaching Module: Women and Empire
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 2
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Gold Solidus of Justinian I (527–65)
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Primer: A Global History of Higher Education
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Battle of Aboukir
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Short Teaching Module: Spatial Histories of Law, Race and Empire
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Misión San Antonio de Padua
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South African Native Affairs Commission report on education
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Salt Fields in Solinen, Russia
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Short Teaching Module: Race, Gender, and Transnational Histories of Solidarity
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 1
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Coca Cola Overseas
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“Africae Novo” Map
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Sati Engraving: A Gentoo Woman Burning Herself
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The Dance of the Dead
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