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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.

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
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Decameron
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Solidarity Election Poster, “High Noon, 4 June 1989”
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Cecil Rhodes monument removal, Cape Town, South Africa
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Missionary Journal, Foot Binding 3
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Travel writing of al-Biruni, 11th century Persian scholar
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History of the Earth in a Cycle
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Bonaparte, First Consul, Putting Away His Sword after the General Peace
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The Turin Beatus Map of the World
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Primer: Big History
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The Children of Edward Holden Cruttenden
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Posada Broadsheet
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America Invertida (Inverted America)
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Maria Tallchief in Dance Magazine, 1961
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British Liberty Tree
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