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.

Business contract between Richard P. Waters and his Omani-Zanzibari trading partner, Esau bin Abdul Rahman
Learn More
Debris of the French Army Returning to the Fatherland
Learn More
“Big Business Banishes the Flapper"
Learn More
Diapers
Learn More
Robespierre 10 Thermidor—Exposition of 1877
Learn More
Abstention Rate in Napoleonic Plebiscites
Learn More
His Monument: Napoleon's Past and Future Are FIlled With Dead Bodies
Learn More
Suffrage Atelier Postcard, 1909
Learn More
Ethnic Groups in Yugoslavia
Learn More
Scenes from Andrzej Wajda’s film, Man of Iron (1981)
Learn More
“Africae Novo” Map
Learn More
Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
Learn More
Selling Toys
Learn More
The Ancient History of the Maori
Learn More
Mexicana: A Repository of Cultural Patrimony in Mexico
Learn More

Footer menu

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