Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) indexes OA monographs published by open monograph publishers in Europe.

Run by the MLA, Humanities Commons is a scholarly networking site and repository for papers, book chapters, and teaching materials in a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities.

This collection from the Yale Law School contains primary sources and other documents relevant to the history of law and diplomacy. Content can be sorted by time period.

The American Yawp offers a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. It is currently being used in ISU history courses and has been praised for its clear and concise coverage of content.

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience).

U.S. History is a survey course beginning with the indigenous people of North America and extending to the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.

U.S. History II covers the chronological history of the United States from Reconstruction through the beginning of the 21st Century.

This textbook examines U.S. History from before European Contact through Reconstruction, while focusing on the people and their history. Prior to its publication, History in the Making underwent a rigorous double blind peer review, a process that involved over thirty scholars who reviewed the materially carefully, objectively, and candidly.

A textbook composed of primary sources interspersed with commentary and introductions produced by students studying early American history & literature, the Anthology of Earlier American Literature covers a timeline from before the Spanish set foot on the mainland to when Mark Twain wrote about his "America," roughly 1600-1850.

It is important to learn about the history and heritage of African Americans that extends back into antiquity because throughout slavery and afterwards, people of European descent advanced what anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits called the “Myths of the Negro Past. (Drake 1990:1–14).” These myths were advanced particularly and primarily about African Americans as rationales to justify slavery, and later discrimination and segregation.

This project from Duke University contains over 400 oral history interviews chronicling African-American life from the 1890s to the 1950s.

A comprehensive survey of American Environmental History covering the exodus and evolution of homo sapiens to food production and transportation in modern day.

World History Since 1500: An Open and Free Textbook is designed to cover world history from 1500 to the present in 15 chapters. The OER-supported textbook can be downloaded as a pdf or viewed online.

A survey of early civilizations from Mesopotamia and Africa to China and the Americas. Provided by Lumen Learning.

World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. It covers Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India’s Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia.

The primary text for this course is World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500. In addition to the OER textbook, you will find a variety of resources that you can adopt and adapt for your class. These include: Recommended course calendar and aligned textbook sections PowerPoint presentations Course documents (primary and secondary sources which correspond to each module) Question banks (for quizzes or exams) Discussion Board prompts (that pull on course documents).

This is a remixed version of World History: Culture, States, and Societies to 1500 by Berger, et al. It's a textbook suitable for the World History survey. I have reorganized the text in order to provide a more globally integrated narrative. Each chapter invites students to compare and contrast developments across regions during a period of time.

In his Introduction, the author explicitly sets out the aims and concerns of the work: it is not motivated by an attempt to be politically correct, but wishes to, ‘straightforwardly, provide the kind of information you need in order to understand today’s world.’ The frankness with which Ringmar communicates this intent is maintained throughout the book. From colonisation and erasure to the Kama Sutra, there is no ground he is unwilling to cover if it is relevant to his unique dissection of IR.

Learn what it means to think like an historian! Units on “Thinking Historically,” “Reading Historically,” “Researching Historically,” and “Writing Historically” describe the essential skills of the discipline of history.

The Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource and this companion volume were designed to present and widely disseminate research on the Meiji Period in a public format designed for easy adoption in the Japanese studies classroom. By pairing digitized materials and documents with historical narrative and interpretive analysis, the “visual essays” contained within encourage readers to review and rethink modern Japanese history through images.