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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.

Age of Consent Laws
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Short Teaching Module: Race, Gender, and Transnational Histories of Solidarity
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Babylonian Map Tablet
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Photograph, Needleworker
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World War II Military Situation Map
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World map by Henricus Martellus
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Apollo 11 Moonwalk
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Through Me You Are All Brothers
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Bonaparte and Islam
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The Sugar Mill
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Adding and Subtracting with an Early Modern Counting Board
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The Gall-Peters Projection
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Long Teaching Module: Children in Ancient China
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Friendship
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The Dance of Death
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