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.

Ashokan Pillar with a Single-Lion Capital at Vaishali, India
Learn More
Puerto Rican Needleworkers in a Factory, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1942
Learn More
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapping
Learn More
Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 3
Learn More
Solidarity Expressions from the Puerto Rican Diaspora
Learn More
Primer: Technology
Learn More
Coin minted by Constantine
Learn More
Map of Poverty in Mexico
Learn More
Los tres mulatos de Esmeraldas
Learn More
Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Learning and Research
Learn More
Short Teaching Module: Global Approaches to Maritime Trade in Colonial North America
Learn More
Middle Ages for Educators
Learn More
Primer: Rewriting of Sub-Saharan African History
Learn More
Meeting of the Emperors at Tilsit
Learn More
Selling Toys
Learn More

Footer menu

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