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.

People under the Old Regime
Learn More
Source Collection: French Monarchy Falls
Learn More
"To the Spirits of Camila O'Gorman"
Learn More
Short Teaching Module: Making Empire Global - British Imperialism in India, 1750-1800
Learn More
Edward Waring on Borax as medicine in India
Learn More
Short Teaching Module: Global Microhistory and the Nineteenth-Century Omani Empire
Learn More
Archeological Collection of the Gold Museums
Learn More
Life Histories (Chile) Table
Learn More
Bhakti Poets: Poem, Akkamahadevi
Learn More
Celebrating Napoleon's Birthday on the Island of St. Helena
Learn More
Neolithic Bone Flutes
Learn More
Bhakti Poets: Poem, Mirabai 3
Learn More
Sword of Sieyès
Learn More
Louis XVI and His Family (20 January 1793)
Learn More
A Hindu Princess Committing Sati against the Wishes of Emperor Akbar
Learn More

Footer menu

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