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 Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday
Learn More
Quilted bedcover of Elisabeth Chapman
Learn More
Aztec Skull Earring, 16th Century
Learn More
Source Collection: The Ongoing Discovery of the Aksumite Kingdom
Learn More
The Great Heroism of the Nineteenth Century
Learn More
Japanese Mercenaries and the Dutch East India Company
Learn More
Children and Toys
Learn More
History of NATO Expansion Map
Learn More
Africae tabula noua
Learn More
Castillo de Piria
Learn More
Globalizing US History
Learn More
Ashokan Pillar with a Single-Lion Capital at Vaishali, India
Learn More
New Netherland Institute
Learn More
Caribbean Sea Migration Collection
Learn More
Short Teaching Module: Girlhood and Little Women
Learn More

Footer menu

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