Skip to main content

Main navigation

  • Sources
  • Teaching
  • Methods
  • Reviews

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.

The Foreign Travels and Dangerous Voyages of Sir John Mandeville, 14th Century
Learn More
Misión San Francisco de Asís
Learn More
Fundraising for Palestinian Families in Jerusalem
Learn More
The Sugar Mill
Learn More
Short Teaching Module: Transnational Connections and the Long Cold War in Nicaragua
Learn More
Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del Socorro
Learn More
Wolff’s justification for omitting hay values
Learn More
"Torture by Water" in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
Learn More
Meiji Era School Attendence
Learn More
Protect the Great Results of the Cultural Revolution, 1974
Learn More
Marshall Islands Stick Charts
Learn More
A Mother's Power
Learn More
Maya Monument with glyphs, 4th-9th centuries
Learn More
History of the Earth in a Cycle
Learn More
Javanese Shadow Puppets
Learn More

Footer menu

  • Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
  • World History Association
  • About
  • CC By-NC 4.0
Funded By