Open Textbook Examples

U.S. History
Full text: https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history

World History in the Early Modern and Modern Areas
Full text: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/world-history-in-the-early-modern-and-modern-eras-1600-present/view

World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600-Present)
Full Text: https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=31

American History
Full Text: https://americanyawp.com/

History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877
Full Text: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=368 or
Full Text: https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/books/1/
Full Text: https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/history-textbooks/1/

United States History, Volume 2
Full Text: https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/united-states-history-volume-2/

World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
Full Text: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=375Full Text: https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/history-textbooks/2/

Modern Revolutions
Full Text: https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=32

Global Perspectives on Industrialization
Full Text: https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=33

US History I (American Yawp)
Full Text: https://courses.candelalearning.com/ushistory1yawp2xmaster/

US History II (American Yawp)
Full Text: https://courses.candelalearning.com/ushistory2yawp2xmaster/

U.S. History Hub
Full Text: https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/

U.S. History
Full Text: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/US_History

Other OER Resources

Teaching History
https://www.teachinghistory.org/history-content

The Avalon Project
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/major.asp

Digital Public Library of America
https://dp.la/

USHistory.org
https://www.ushistory.org/textbooks.htm

The Process of Research Writing
Full Text: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=284  or
Full Text: https://www.stevendkrause.com/tprw/  

Sage American History
https://sageamericanhistory.net/

Additional History OER Textbooks and Resources
https://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/textbook-listings/textbooks-by-subject/history

 

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