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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.

Christopher Columbus monument removal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posada Broadsheet
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Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
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Coca Bag
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Antonio Gramsci: Selections from The Prison Notebooks
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The Drunkard
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The High-Caste Hindu Woman
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Division with an Early Modern Counting Board
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Mencius and his Mother: A Lesson Drawn from Weaving
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Moai on Easter Island
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The Children of Edward Holden Cruttenden
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Nobel Peace Center
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Misión Nuestra Señora del Refugio
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The Huejotzingo Codex of 1531
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Terakoya vs. Meiji School
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