In anticipation of a spring program related to the use of open access materials, the leadership team of the History Librarians Interest Group has put together a list of useful resources.
Open Access Textbooks
Open Textbook Library (OTL)
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/history
MERLOT
https://www.merlot.org
BC Campus Textbooks
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?subject=History
The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook
https://www.americanyawp.com/
Open Stax
https://openstax.org/subjects/humanities
Cornell Open Press
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open/history/
History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States to 1877
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/368
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/history-textbooks/2/
Our Story: An Ancillary to US History
https://pressbooks.pub/ourstory/
Western Civilization: A Concise History
https://pressbooks.nscc.ca/worldhistory/
Libretexts
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History
OER Commons: books, lesson plans, activities, ancillary materials, etc. https://oercommons.org/browse?batch_size=20&sort_by=title&view_mode=summary&f.general_subject=history
Digital Collections/Primary documents
National Women's History Museum Digital Classroom Resources
https://www.womenshistory.org/students-educators/digital-classroom-resources
Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library's Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/major.asp
Library of Congress Digital Collections (includes Alexander Hamilton papers, Travels in America, 1750-1920, American Federal of Labor Records, Civil War maps, Edward Curtis collection, and many more)
https://www.loc.gov/collections/
Jessica Parr Digital Collections
https://jessicaparr.org/archives/
New York Public Library Digital Schomburg
https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg
Subject Specific Resources
Freedom on the Move
https://freedomonthemove.org/
Living Archives: A History of the Center for Christian Spirituality
https://books.atla.com/atlapress/catalog/book/95
A Guide to Conducting Institutional Oral History Projects in Classrooms
https://ubalt.pressbooks.pub/oralhistory/
Digital Meijis: Revisualizing Modern Japanese History at 150
https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/meijiat150/
Native Words, Native Warriors
https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/code-talkers/
Tragedy and Triumph: Early Testimonies of Jewish Survivors of World War II
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/25753/1004335.pdf
Shingwauk Narratives: Sharing Residential School History
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/shingwauknarratives/
Stanford History Education Group Reading Like a Historian
https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons
Historical thinking for senior secondary students: A collection of teaching and learning activities
https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/historical-thinking-for-senior-secondary-students/
Digital Commons Network
http://network.bepress.com/arts-and-humanities/history/
Journal of Global History
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-global-history/open-access
Advances in Historical Studies
https://www.scirp.org/journal/ahs/
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Theresa Hessey
Digital Collections Librarian
University of Delaware
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