Open Educational Resources (OER): History

This subset of the MERLOT collection features openly licensed textbooks for use by students and faculty.

The Open Textbook Library is a collection of open textbooks that features reviews written by professors.

The College Open Textbooks Collaborative is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges.

The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education to provide flexible and affordable access to higher education resources.

The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses.

This book provides a strong emphasis on critical thinking about US History by providing several key features in each chapter.

Beginning with the nature of government, this text covers all of the main topics of government including federalism, congress, bureaucracy, and civil rights.

This online text comprehensively addresses all major ancient civilization including Egypt, Greece, Rome, Africa, and China.

Our free world history textbooks introduce students to a global perspective of history through an engaging narrative, primary source materials, and perspectives highlighting the work of diverse and underrepresented scholars.

The Digital Edition of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin serves text of published papers and unverified transcriptions of unpublished material.

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

The Scripps Library, through cooperation with various presidential libraries, has been collecting some of the most important presidential speeches in American history. These speeches all have transcripts, and some are available in their entirety in audio or video form.

The Department of History is home to one of the most popular majors on the Yale campus and encompasses the histories of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Courses range in focus from the earliest recorded historical periods up through the modern day.

This course is an introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire, with an emphasis on urban planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting.