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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.

Children and Daguerreotypes
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Life Histories (Chile) Table
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Mercator Projection
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Least Cost Pathway Analysis Showing Movement Across a Landscape
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Picture of civil rights activist, Djida Tazdaït
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Primer: Environmental History
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Illustration from The Maqamat of al-Hariri
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Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1857
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Short Teaching Module: Controversial Historical Monuments
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Peter Kropotkin on the Need for Individual Action
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Primer: Imperialism
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Excerpt from Ledyard's Journal
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Sati Engraving: A Gentoo Woman Burning Herself
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Aztec Skull Earring, 16th Century
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Africae tabula noua
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