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.

The Good Sans–Culotte
Learn More
Mameluke with a basket of flowers, 1641
Learn More
Map of the Outskirts of Mexico City
Learn More
Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves
Learn More
Tracing Canoe Pathways in the Lesser Antilles, 2000 BE - 400 BC
Learn More
Child’s Life Course
Learn More
Meeting of the Emperors at Tilsit
Learn More
Disciplining Children in the Codex Mendoza
Learn More
Misión San Estévan del Rey de Ácoma
Learn More
Original Manuscripts of Anne Frank
Learn More
Map of Poverty in Mexico
Learn More
Day of Saint-Cloud
Learn More
Primer: Transcultural History
Learn More
Nautical Chart, 1385
Learn More
Short Teaching Module: Roman Children’s Sarcophagi
Learn More

Footer menu

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