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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.

Primer: Transcultural History
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“Aparición de San Isidoro al Rey Fernando el Santo ante los muros de Sevilla” by Francisco de Goya
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Codex Mendoza
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Ptolemy's World Map
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Cartoon Depicts Debate at Hasting's Impeachment Trial, 1788
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Misión San Juan Capistrano (California)
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Emmerton Letter, 1926
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Chive Pocket Watch (Reloj de bolsillo tipo cebollón)
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Photographs of the St. Stanisław Kostka Church in Warsaw
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Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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BaAka Women Dancing the Hunting Dance, Ndambo
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London Newspaper
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New Zealand, Maoris at Their Talking House
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The French Nation Defeats Despotism
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Heading of east portal Tunnel No. 8
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