OER Resources - History

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

United States History, Volume 2.

Boundless provides two textbooks: US History and World History.

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

OER Commons provides a curated collection of history textbooks.

Find textbooks, lessons, and other print materials for teaching history.

Browse a wide selection of textbooks on history.

Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 eBooks in the public domain that are available freely online.

Project Gutenberg provides a collection of books on wars such as The American Revolutionary War, The Spanish American War, US Civil War, Boer War, World War I, and World War II.

Independence Hall Association provides a series of three textbooks including: American History, American Government, and Ancient Civilizations as well as historic documents, people, places, and resources for teachers and students.

Providing online history courses and guides for students to access and learn for their own enjoyment and educational purposes.

Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums.

Explore important events from ancient to modern times with online history courses from leading universities and cultural institutions.

The course 'World War and Society in the Twentieth Century: World War II' is a thematic exploration of the war and its time through feature films, primary sources, and scholarly interpretations.

MIT Open Courseware offers an extensive series of online courses. Courses generally include lecture videos, assignments, exams, and more.

Search for free history courses, inter-actives, videos and more.

The Yale Department of History encompasses the histories of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America.

Create and share lessons around any TED-Ed original, TED Talk or YouTube Video.

A collection of educational videos posted on YouTube.

The activists interviewed for this project belong to a wide range of occupations, including lawyers, judges, doctors, farmers, journalists, professors, and musicians, among others. The video recordings of their recollections cover a wide variety of topics within the civil rights movement, such as the influence of the labor movement, nonviolence and self-defense, religious faith, music, and the experiences of young activists.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Exhibitions are designed to tell stories of national significance using source materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States, including letters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and more.

The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.

History Net contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in History Net's various magazines.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

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.

Uses images and audio to help memorize vocabulary. Interactive site that saves individual progress.

The National Geographic online website and resource.

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

Perseus 19th Century American collection provides a list of historic documents, records, photographs, and other resources that can be used to study history.

The Miller Center provides information on the institution of the presidency, including in-depth reference essays, the Secret White House Tapes, presidential oral histories, and rich archival material such as rare audio and video of speeches.

The September 11, 2001 Documentary Project captures the reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93.

Former Slaves Tell Their Stories. The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states.