Textbook Collections
The following sites contain open textbooks in a variety of subject areas, but the links below will take you directly to the textbooks about history. This is by no means an exhaustive list!
- Humanities & Languages (Open Textbook Library)These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
Other Types of Open Resources
- History (MIT Open Courseware)MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
- History (Saylor Academy)Saylor Academy contains full courses, including syllabi, readings, quizzes, and more.
- Open Course LibraryThe Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts. Some of their materials are paired with low cost textbooks ($30 or less). Many of the courses can be taught at no cost to students.
- History (Open Learn)Open Learn is an initiative of The Open University, UK. It provides supplemental materials for educators, including articles, podcasts, videos, games, and much more. In addition, it offers more than 700 free online classes.
- History (MERLOT)MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. The MERLOT Collection is made up of over 40,000 materials in 19 different material type categories.
- History & Government (HippoCampus)Hippocampus offers educators a wide variety of multimedia content online, including videos, animations, and simulations. An additional feature offers educators the ability to create "playlists" for their students, which correlate specifically to their particular instruction material.
- OER CommonsOER Commons helps educators, students, and lifelong learners avoid time-consuming searches and find exactly the right materials. With a single point of access from which they can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons’ growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER everyone can more efficiently find what they need.
Featured Textbooks
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
Eugene Berger, Georgia Gwinnett College
The American Yawp
Editors
Joseph Locke, University of Houston-Victoria
Ben Wright, University of Texas at Dallas
U.S. History
Senior Contributing Authors
P. Scott Corbett, Ventura College
Volker Janssen, California State University, Fullerton
John M. Lund, Keene State College
Todd Pfannestiel, Clarion University
Paul Vickery, Oral Roberts University
History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877
Authors
Catherine Locks, Fort Valley State University
Pamela Thomas Roseman, Georgia Perimeter College
Sarah K. Mergel, Dalton State College
Tamara Spike, University of North Georgia
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