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.

Misión San Gabriel Arcángel
Learn More
India’s Cries to British Humanity
Learn More
British Liberty Tree
Learn More
Excerpt from Ledyard's Journal
Learn More
Early Modern Ottoman Carpet at the Walters Art Museum
Learn More
The Executive Abroad
Learn More
Meeting of the Emperors at Tilsit
Learn More
Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves
Learn More
Newspaper Report on Pan-African Congress's Response to U.S. Lynchings
Learn More
Mabo Song
Learn More
Codex Mendoza
Learn More
Sword Hilt with Revolutionary Icons—Liberty
Learn More
Somoza cartoon
Learn More
The Gall-Peters Projection
Learn More
Islamic Carpet made in Safavid Iran
Learn More

Footer menu

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