World History Commons

FAIN: HAA-261101-18

George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030-4444)
Kelly Schrum (Project Director: January 2018 to present)
Jessica Otis (Co Project Director: October 2018 to present)

Digital revitalization and content upgrades for World History Matters, a free-to-use educational web resource for teaching world history.

World History Commons, a Level III grant, will provide an essential digital resource for teaching and research in world and global history, reviving and expanding World History Matters, the award-winning, NEH-funded collection of world history websites now almost twenty years old. Using robust, modular, and extendable open-source software, this Open Educational Resource (OER) will preserve and enhance widely-used resources while introducing new humanities scholarship and pedagogy. World History Commons represents a ground-breaking collaboration between the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the World History Association, and Monash University (Australia) which runs one of the largest world history programs in the southern hemisphere. World History Commons will provide a free, centralized, digital, world history platform with high quality, peer-reviewed resources for high school and higher education students, teachers, and scholars.

Media Coverage

World History Commons (Review)
Author(s): American Historical Association
Publication: Remote Teaching Resources
Date: 8/18/2020
URL: https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/remote-teaching-resources/world-history-commons

Associated Products

World History Commons (Web Resource)
Title: World History Commons
Author: World History Commons Team
Author: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Abstract: World History Commons is an open educational resource with peer-reviewed content designed to bring humanities scholarship to world and global history teachers, scholars, and students.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://worldhistorycommons.org
Primary URL Description: World History Commons is an open educational resource with peer-reviewed content designed to bring humanities scholarship to world and global history teachers, scholars, and students.

World History Commons YouTube Playlist (Web Resource)
Title: World History Commons YouTube Playlist
Author: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Abstract: Sixteen videos created to introduce WHC and provide ideas for incorporating specific resources into teaching.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlBcR3iW1izAF7sBAya4eVGAZ4BjN22r1
Primary URL Description: World History Commons YouTube Playlist

World History Commons Twitter Feed (Web Resource)
Title: World History Commons Twitter Feed
Author: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Abstract: World History Commons Twitter Feed
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://twitter.com/worldhistcommon

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