Open Educational Resources by Subject Disciplines

Saylor Foundation

Both a classroom resource and the largest collection of online texts, the goal of Fordham University's Sourcebook series is to provide and organize primary texts for use in classroom situations.

A project of the Yale Law School providing full-text access to documents from ancient history to today in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

Lumen Learning

Both a classroom resource and the largest collection of online texts, the goal of Fordham University's Sourcebook series is to provide and organize primary texts for use in classroom situations.

World history after 1500 from Minnesota State Universities.

Saylor Foundation

Volume 1: from the origins of civilization in Mesopotamia c. 8,000 BCE through the early Middle Ages in Europe c. 1,000 CE. Volume 1 covers topics including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Islamic caliphates, and the early European Middle Ages.

Volume 2: from the early Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789 CE. Volume 2covers topics including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the European conquest of the Americas, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.

Volume 3: from the Napoleonic era to the recent past. Volume 3 covers topics including the Industrial Revolution, the politics of Europe in the nineteenth century, modern European imperialism, the world wars, fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, the postwar era, the Cold War, and recent developments in economics and politics.

This collection includes images of primary materials from around the world and spanning a timeline of 8000BC to the present. The WDL was created by the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

"Explore Ancient History, including videos, pictures, and articles on cultures such as Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and more." From History.com

This Khan Academy collection of video tutorials discusses the Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece, and Rome.

"Find out more about the history of Middle Ages, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more." From History.com.

"Find out more about the history of Italian Renaissance, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more." From History.com.

"This course surveys the social, cultural, and political development of western Europe between 500 and 1350."

"This course examines the development of the western intellectual tradition from the fall of the Roman Empire through the High Middle Ages. Our basic premise will be that the triumph of Christianity in the west was not the inevitable outcome it might appear from hindsight."

"In this class, we will highlight the history of humanism, but we will also study religious reformations, high politics, the agrarian world, and European conquest and expansion abroad in the period."