Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Canadian Studies
Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, 2nd Edition
Canadian History: Pre-Confederation is a survey text that introduces undergraduate students to important themes in North American history to 1867. It provides room for Indigenous and European agendas and narratives, explores the connections between the territory that coalesces into the shape of modern Canada and the larger continent and world in which it operates, and engages with emergent issues in the field.
Includes: Summaries, key terms, short answer exercises, glossary
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, 1st Edition
Canadian History: Pre-Confederation is a survey text that introduces undergraduate students to important themes in North American history to 1867. It provides room for Aboriginal and European agendas and narratives, explores the connections between the territory that coalesces into the shape of modern Canada and the larger continent and world in which it operates, and engages with emergent issues in the field.
Includes: Summaries, key terms, short answer exercises, glossary, suggested readings
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Canadian History: Post-Confederation – 2nd Edition
This textbook introduces aspects of the history of Canada since Confederation. “Canada” in this context includes Newfoundland and all the other parts that come to be aggregated into the Dominion after 1867. Much of this text follows thematic lines. Each chapter moves chronologically but with alternative narratives in mind.
Includes: Summaries, key points, key terms, short answer exercises, glossary
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Confronting Canadian Migration History
This open collection of essays speak to the broad range of research being done in Canadian migration history; they also highlight the commitment of their authors to an engaged, public-facing scholarly practice.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada by Benjamin Drew
The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada (1856)—full title A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada—is a collection of over 100 testimonies of escaped slaves by white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew [Description from resource].
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
Indigenous Histories
Healing and Reconciliation Through Education
This open educational resource is focused on teaching the history of the colonial legacy of Residential Schools, with an emphasis on exploring the unique history of the Shingwauk Residential School which operated in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. This project builds upon decades of archival research and data collection, including the recording of oral histories, under the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre’s (SRSC) mandate of ‘sharing, healing, and learning.’ ‘Healing and Reconciliation through Education’ is designed to increase the capacity of the SRSC to educate local, regional, and national audience about the history of Residential Schools.
Includes: Interactive map
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Historical and Contemporary Realities: Movement Towards Reconciliation
This open textbook is written as a resource for educators to teach students about the Indigenous historical significance of the lands encompassing the Robinson-Huron Treaty area and more specifically the Greater Sudbury and Manitoulin area. It also, through the use of interactive mapping strategies, serves as a guide for educators to develop a similar resource to document Indigenous stories from their own areas.
Includes: Learning activities, resources for more learning, maps
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada
Since the 18th century, the historical study of “Indians,” “Natives,” and “Aboriginals” in universities and colleges was contextualized within the story of colonization and growing European influence. Whatever justification might be mustered for that practice, it had real and dire effects: Canadians — including many Indigenous people — came to understand Indigenous histories as tangential, small, unimportant, and even a blind alley. This kind of thinking enabled Canadian authorities and citizens to regard Indigenous communities as being “without history,” as in, outside of history, which we can agree in modern times is simply untrue, as this book strives to show.
Includes: Glossary
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Reviews: Available through the BCcampus Open Textbook Collection
Shingwauk Narratives: Sharing Residential School History
The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre (SRSC) holds 10 letter books of the first principal of the Shingwauk Residential School, Rev. Edward F. Wilson, and the fourth principal Rev. George L. King. These letters range in date from 1875-1904, and include a wealth of information about the early history of Shingwauk and Wawanosh. This resource shares stories compiled from the information in the letter books. Shingwauk Narratives discusses the in depth history of residential school, colonialism, and the establishment of the Shingwauk Residential School.
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Central and East European Studies
Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories
The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories includes approximately 800 hours of Yiddish-language interviews with 350 individuals, most of whom were born between 1900 and 1930. The interviews were conducted in Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, and Slovakia.
Licence: Note the copyrighted content on the website is available to use for free, however they are not openly licence.
Decoding the 1920s: A Reader for Advanced Learners of Russian
Pre-reading assignment, preparatory written assignments, discussion and textual analysis, supplementary assignments.
Includes: Pre-reading assignment, preparatory written assignments, discussion and textual analysis, supplementary assignments
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
“The Death of Ivan Ilich”: An Electronic Study Edition of the Russian Text
The Russian text of “The Death of Ivan Ilich” is presented for study in various formats: accompanied by an English translation; fully glossed, with explanatory and interpretive annotations; and supplemented by introductory remarks.
Includes: Extensive bibliography
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
A Foundation Course in Reading German
This textbook guides a learner who has no previous German experience to accurately understand formal written German prose.
Includes: Unit review practice
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Great Power Policies Towards Central Europe 1914–1945
This essay collection provides an overview of the various forms and trajectories of Great Power policy towards Central Europe between 1914 and 1945. The volume is designed to be accessible and informative to both historians and wider audiences.
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North
This essay collection explores the concept of lifestyle from a distinctly anthropological perspective. Showcasing the collective work of ten experienced scholars in the field, the book goes beyond concepts of tradition that have often been the focus of previous research, to explain how political, economic and technological changes in Russia have created a wide range of new possibilities and constraints in the pursuit of different ways of life.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Memory Politics in Contemporary Russia: Television, Cinema and the State
This book critically examines the role of cinema and television in shaping and spreading narratives of memory politics in contemporary Russia to provide a better understanding both of the various ways the Russian government practices memory politics, and the existence of alternative and critical voices and criticism.
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: This is an open access text which restricts remixing and adapting).
Migration and the Ukraine Crisis: A Two Country Perspective
This book focuses on the 2014 Ukraine crisis and the war for Crimea, covering introductory concepts in migration studies, from geopolitical fault-lines to labour migration.
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Modernisation in Russia since 1900
This essay collection examines the broad theme of modernisation in late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia both through general overviews of particular topics, and specific case studies of modernisation projects and their impact.
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: This is an open access text which restricts remixing and adapting).
Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives
This essay collection introduces new and stimulating approaches to the ongoing debate as to how Russian artistic modernism engaged with questions of spirituality in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Nexus of Patriotism and Militarism in Russia: A Quest for Internal Cohesion
This edited volume explores patriotism and the growing role of militarism in today’s Russia. During the last 20-year period, there has been a consistent effort in Russia to consolidate the nation and to foster a sense of unity and common purpose. This volume provides new insights into the evolution of enemy images in Russia and the ways in which societal actors perceive official projections of patriotism and militarism in the Russian society.
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
The Other Russia: Local experience and societal change
Most recent research seeks to explain contemporary changes in Russia by analysing the decisions of Russian leaders, oligarchs and politicians based in Moscow. This book examines another Russia, one of ordinary people changing their environment and taking opportunities to provoke societal changes in small towns and the countryside.
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: This is an open access text which restricts remixing and adapting).
The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in the context of ubiquitous connectivity and accounts for the political and societal responses to digitalization.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Arranged in three sections, with case studies from Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Serbia, this collection develops anthropological views on the processes and consequences of the politicisation of the environment.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature
This edited volume employs the paradoxical notion of ‘anticipatory plagiarism’ as a mode for reading Russian literature.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Results of the Revolutionary Movement in Russia during a Period of 40 Years (1862-1902)
This book, published in Geneva in 1903, is number 24 in a series of 43 titles produced in 1902−4 by the social democratic organization Zhizn’ (Life) as “The Library of the Russian Proletariat.” The book is a compilation of documents, including programs, manifestoes, and articles, related to the Russian revolutionary movement in 1862−1902.
Licence: Public Domain
Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon
Ukraine in Conflict: An Analytical Chronicle
Through a series of articles written between 2013 and 2017, this book examines Ukraine during its period of conflict – from the protests and uprising of Euromaidan, to the Russian annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of war in Ukraine’s two eastern provinces Donetsk and Luhansk.
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Lives and Culture
This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia – from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia – discussing their interaction with the church and the law, and their rich contribution to music, art, literature and theatre.
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (Note: This is an open access text which restricts remixing and adapting).
Greek and Roman Studies
Antigone by Sophocles
Written by Sophocles circa 441 BC, Antigone is an Athenian tragedy. Of the three Theban plays, Antigone is the third in order of the events depicted in the plays, but was the first to be written. The reading order of the Theban plays is: Oedipus Rex, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and ending with Antigone [Description from resource].
Includes: audiobook
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
Brevissima: 1001 Tiny Latin Poems
This book is divided into 3 parts, with Part 1 containing only the most commonly used Latin vocabulary, Part 2 containing a word that is less commonly used, and part 3 containing two words which are less commonly used.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86. Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation
This volume provides a portion of the original text of Cicero’s speech in Latin, a detailed commentary, study aids, and a translation.
Includes: Vocabulary, map
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation
This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, vocabulary, and commentary.
Includes: Vocabulary terms
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Latin Via Proverbs
These Latin proverbs are organized by grammatical categories, so that they can be used with students at various levels.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Mille Fabulae et Una: 1001 Aesop’s Fables in Latin
These fables are organized by main character. An overview of the fable genre is also included.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology
This text covers introductory concepts in classical mythology, from Aegis to Zeus.
Descriptions of figures found in classical mythology. There are actually many different types of myth, not just three. In fact, there are several entire theories of myth. The theoretical study of myth is very complex; many books have been written about theories of myth, and we could have an entire class just on theories of myth (without studying any of the myths themselves). The problem with theories of myth, however, is that they are not very good; they don’t do a great job of explaining the myths or in helping us understand them. Furthermore, the myths themselves are much more interesting than the theories. For this reason, this textbook will not say very much about the theories of myth. But we don’t want to ignore the theoretical study of myth entirely, so we will limit ourselves to discussing only three types of myth (Description from resource). I
Includes: Map
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Myths of the Greek and Roman Gods
Edited by Roberto Nickel, this collection of myths of Greek and Roman gods includes extracts from the Homer’s Odessey and Iliad and Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days, Aeschylus’ complete Prometheus Bound, and more.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics (circa 322 BC) is an ethical treatise by Aristotle. In the text, Aristotle offers a defence of the idea of eudaimonism (human flourishing or happiness) which is achieved as a result of human choice in search of excellence and the good life [Description from resource].
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey (originally composed in the 8th or 7th century BCE; published in English in 1614) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems by Homer. The story follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. The poem is divided into 24 books and is one of the oldest existing works of literature still read by contemporary audiences [Description from resource].
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
Written shortly before Sophocles’s death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC, Oedipus at Colonus (also known as Oedipus Coloneus) is one of the three Theban plays. Of the three Theban plays, Oedipus at Colonus is the second in order of the events depicted in the plays, but was the last to be written. The reading order of the Theban plays is: Oedipus Rex, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and ending with Antigone [Description from resource].
Includes: audiobook
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Written by Sophocles and first performed around 429 BC, Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy. Originally, to the ancient Greeks, the title was simply Oedipus, as it is referred to by Aristotle in Poetics. Of the three Theban plays, Oedipus Rex is the first in order of the events depicted in the plays, but was the second to be written. The reading order of the Theban plays is: Oedipus Rex, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and ending with Antigone [Description from resource].
Includes: audiobook
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
Ovid, Amores (Book 1)
From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid’s Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition. Introductory essays included.
Includes: Suggested reading, embedded audio files of the original text read aloud
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733. Latin Text with Commentary
This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. This extract from Ovid’s ‘Theban History’ recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine.
Includes: Commentary, glossary
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Poetics by Aristotle
Poetics (circa 335 BC) by Aristotle is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first surviving philosophical essay to focus on literary theory. Aristotle divides the art of poetry into three genres: verse drama (to include comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play); lyric poetry; and epic. These genres all share the function of mimesis, or imitation of life, but differ in three ways: 1. Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody; 2. Difference of goodness in the characters; 3. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out [Description from resource].
Includes: audiobook
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
Public Domain Core Collection
Includes fiction and non-fiction public domain works that have been adapted for post-secondary use through Pressbooks. This collection is a collaborative project between Ryerson and Brock universities. Many of the works include audiobook recordings as well.
Licence: Public Domain
Public Domain Core Collection Faculty Guide
This guide has been created to assist instructors in using the Public Domain Core Collection of texts and to provide some suggestions and examples of open assignments that can be created using these texts [Description from resource].
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Republic by Plato
Republic (circa 375 BC) is a Socratic dialogue by Plato. The text explores topics like justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory—both intellectually and historically—in the world, thus marking it as Plato’s best-known work [Description from resources].
Includes: audiobook
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
The Roman Empire
This open access text covers introductory concepts in the roman empire.
Includes: Timeline
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note this resource is free, but adapting or remixing is restricted)
Roman Gods
This open access book analyzes the pagan, Jewish, and Christian concepts of “god” along the lines of space, time, personnel, function, iconography and ritual.
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary
This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus’ prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
Includes: Vocabulary aid, maps, family tree
Licence: CC BY 3.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299. Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays
This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study questions, a commentary, and interpretative essays. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard’s incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Virgil’s poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
Includes: Study questions, bibliography
Licence: CC BY-NC 3.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Vulgate Verses: 4000 Verses from the Bible for Teachers and Students of Latin
These Latin verses are organized by grammatical categories, so that they can be used with students at various levels.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Latin
Open Greek and Latin Project
The ultimate goal is to represent every source text produced in Classical Greek or Latin from antiquity through the present, including texts preserved in manuscript tradition as well as on inscriptions, papyri, ostraca and other written artefacts.
Licence: CC BY-SA
South Asian Studies
A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India
This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic.
Licence: Please note that while free to read online, this content is not licensed for reuse.
Asian Century… on a Knife-edge
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India
In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion’s role in public life in India through the present day.
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: This is an open access chapter which restricts remixing and adapting).
KPU HIST Open Encyclopedia: South Asia
This website is a value-neutral presentation of people, events, and policies from South Asian history. It is designed to be an ongoing and evolving site as more articles are included. The origin of these articles is student assignments for South Asian History and Asian Studies classes. Various submissions have been combined and edited to produce the final versions published on this website, and new articles will be added as future students complete the assignments [Description from resource].
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Note: this is an open access resource that does not allow for remixing and adaptation)
South and East Asian Philosopher Reader: An Open Educational Resource
This Introduction to South and East Asian Philosopher Reader was developed as an Open Textbook for use in a lower-level Philosophy course at a California community college. It contains many of the classic and important works in East and South Asian Philosophies as well as some historical and biographical information. This work is effectively an anthology of many important works in Philosophy that are freely available.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
United States History
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave: Written by himself by Henry Bibb
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave (1849) is the autobiography of ex-slave and Abolitionist Henry Bibb. Born on a Kentucky plantation in 1815, Bibb first attempted to escape from bondage at the age of ten. He was recaptured and escaped several more times before he eventually settled in Detroit, Michigan, and joined the antislavery movement as a lecturer [Description from resource].
Includes: audiobook
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) is a memoir and treatise on abolition by American orator and ex-slave Frederick Douglass. Considered to be the most famous narrative written by a former slave, the text describes—in factual detail—the events of Douglass’s life. It was also one of the most influential works of literature to lend fuel to the American abolitionist movement in the the early 19th century [Description from resource].
Includes: audiobook
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
The Underground Railroad by William Still
The Underground Railroad (1872) is a book by African-American abolitionist and Father of the Underground Railroad, William Still. The book is a collection of testimonies from nearly 650 slaves who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad [Description from resource].
Includes: audiobook
Licence: CC 0 (Public Domain)
U.S. History (OpenStax)
Includes: Teaching resources, student resources
Licence: CC BY 4.0
World History
The Ancient and Medieval World
This introductory text is organized in a modular format, with a general introduction to each topic, a timeline and relevant maps, several primary documents to help students to better understand the time period, and at least two visual or audio sources to add a different dimension to that understanding.
Includes: Questions for consideration, glossary
Licence: CC BY 4.0
History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective
This textbook pioneers a new approach to the study of international relations by historicizing the material traditionally taught in international relations courses and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates, and issues.
Includes: Timelines, short dictionaries, ‘think about’ reflection questions
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Keys to Understanding the Middle East
This introductory textbook covers the languages, cultural, religious and sectarian communities of the Middle East, and selected turning points and influential people in history are starting points for gaining an understanding of the diverse contexts of the region.
Includes: Glossary, classroom resources
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Manuscripts Online: Written Culture 1000 to 1500
This resource is a collection of manuscripts with introductions. Please note that while free to use, the material on this site are typically not licensed for editing or remixing.
Licence: Copyright holders have made content on the website available for educational purposes for free, however they are not openly licence.
Middle English Dictionary
Licence: Copyright holders have made content on the website available for educational purposes for free, however they are not openly licence.
Modern World History
This is the textbook for an undergraduate survey course taught at all the universities and most of the colleges in the Minnesota State system. Similar courses are taught at institutions around the United States and the world, so the authors have made the text available as an open educational resource that teachers and learners can read, adapt, and reuse to meet their needs.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Reviews: Available through Open Textbook Library
Public Domain Core Collection
Includes fiction and non-fiction public domain works that have been adapted for post-secondary use through Pressbooks. This collection is a collaborative project between Ryerson and Brock universities. Many of the works include audiobook recordings as well.
Licence: Public Domain
Public Domain Core Collection Faculty Guide
This guide has been created to assist instructors in using the Public Domain Core Collection of texts and to provide some suggestions and examples of open assignments that can be created using these texts [Description from resource].
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Western Civilization (Lumen Learning)
This peer-reviewed, open Lumen Learning course covers introductory concepts in western civilization, from the Hittites to the Protestant Reformation.
Includes: Key terms
Licence: CC BY 4.0, unless otherwise noted.
Western Civilization: A Concise History – Volume 1
Western Civilization: A Concise History is available in three volumes. Volume 1 covers introductory concepts in western civilization, from the origins of civilization in Mesopotamia c. 8,000 BCE through the early Middle Ages in Europe c. 1,000 CE. Topics include Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Islamic caliphates, and the early European Middle Ages.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Western Civilization: A Concise History – Volume 2
Volume 2 looks at the early Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789 CE. This volume covers topics including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the European conquest of the Americas, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
Western Civilization: A Concise History – Volume 3
Volume 3 surveys the Napoleonic era to the recent past. Topics include 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.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500, covering such cultures, states, and societies as 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.
Includes: Summary, key terms
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library
World History, Volume 1: to 1500 (OpenStax)
World History, Volume 1: to 1500 is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course to 1500 offered at both two-year and four-year institutions. Suitable for both majors and non majors World History, Volume 1: to 1500 introduces students to a global perspective of history couched in an engaging narrative. Concepts and assessments help students think critically about the issues they encounter so they can broaden their perspective of global history. A special effort has been made to introduce and juxtapose people’s experiences of history for a rich and nuanced discussion. Primary source material represents the cultures being discussed from a firsthand perspective whenever possible. World History, Volume 1: to 1500 also includes the work of diverse and underrepresented scholars to ensure a full range of perspectives [Description from resource].
Includes: Lecture slides and test bank.
Licence: CC BY
World History, Volume 2: from 1400 (OpenStax)
World History, Volume 2: from 1400 is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course from 1400 offered at both two-year and four-year institutions. Suitable for both majors and non majors World History, Volume 2: from 1400 introduces students to a global perspective of history couched in an engaging narrative. Concepts and assessments help students think critically about the issues they encounter so they can broaden their perspective of global history. A special effort has been made to introduce and juxtapose people’s experiences of history for a rich and nuanced discussion. Primary source material represents the cultures being discussed from a firsthand perspective whenever possible. World History, Volume 2: from 1400 also includes the work of diverse and underrepresented scholars to ensure a full range of perspectives. [Description from resource].
Includes: Lecture slides and test bank.
Licence: CC BY
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