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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.

Soviet Nationalities Map, 1989
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Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
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Hakluyt's The Principall Investigations
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Short Teaching Module: Agricultural Knowledge in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Misión San Francisco de la Espada
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The Battle of Waterloo as Seen by an Ordinary British Cavalryman
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Source Collection: Monarchy Embattled
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Removal of the Parlements
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Olympic Games Poster, Stockholm, 1912.
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The Blood of the Murdered Crying for Vengeance
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Little Women, "Amy's Valley of Humiliation"
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Children and Daguerreotypes
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Marco Polo’s Travels
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Cueva de los Manos, Rio Pinturas
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Cast of the Hand of Brazilian Emperor Pedro II
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