Faculty of Arts
History
Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
By: John Douglas Belshaw, Thompson Rivers University
Canadian History: Pre-Confederation is a survey text that introduces undergraduate students to important themes in North American history to 1867. Written and reviewed by subject experts drawn from colleges and universities, this is the first open textbook on the topic of Canadian history.
Includes: instructor resources (videos)
Attribution: Canadian History: Pre-Confederation by John Douglas Belshaw is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License.
Canadian History: Post-Confederation
By: John Douglas Belshaw, Thompson Rivers University
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.
Includes: instructor resources (videos).
Attribution: Canadian History: Post-Confederation by John Douglas Belshaw is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License.
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
By: Eugene Berger, George L. Israel, Charlotte Miller, Brian Parkinson, Andrew Reeves and Nadejda Williams, Georgia Gwinnett College
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 is a peer-reviewed textbook which offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500.
Includes: high-resolution images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning.
Attribution: World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 by Eugene Berger, George L. Israel, Charlotte Miller, Brian Parkinson, Andrew Reeves and Nadejda Williams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International License.
Yale Lectures: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000
This open course looks into the major developments in the political, social, and religious history of Western Europe from the accession of Diocletian to the feudal transformation.
Includes: all course materials (zipped file).
U.S. History
This open textbook covers the breadth of the chronological history of the United States and the key forces and major developments that together form the American experience, with particular attention paid to considering issues of race, class, and gender.
Includes: instructor and student resources.
Sage American History – Era of the American Revolution
This peer-reviewed open textbook is a comprehensive look at the American Revolution, containing links to primary source documents and other resources of this important era in U.S. history.
Includes: instructor and student resources.
Global History and New Polycentric Approaches
This well-reviewed open textbook rethinks the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, and considers how global issues are connected with our local and national c