World History Resources for College & Adult

Explore 10 curated world history learning resources designed for College & Adult students. Browse curricula, apps, videos, worksheets, and more to find the perfect fit for your learner.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new ch...

History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Day

History tells the story of mankind from prehistory to the present day using a unique visual approach, filled with timelines, images of artifacts, photography, graphics, and more. Now in its third edition, this much-loved classic has been revised and...

Big History: Connecting Knowledge

We currently face unprecedented challenges on a global scale. These problems do not neatly fall into disciplines. They are complicated, complex, and connected. Join us on this epic journey of 13.8 billion years starting at the Big Bang and travelling...

HIST362: Modern Revolutions

In the 1970s, the Chinese Communist leader Zhou Enlai was asked to assess the outcomes of the French Revolution of 1789. He supposedly answered: "It is too soon to say.” Though this story has a somewhat apocryphal status, it captures a fundamen...

Crash Course: World History

John Green teaches you the history of the world in 42 episodes of Crash Course. Learn, study and understand all the important civilizations, empires, wars, and revolutions the world has seen so far....

World history

Called the Great War (before World War II came about), World War I was the bloody wake-up call that humanity was entering into a new stage of civilization. Really the defining conflict that took Europe from 19th Century Imperial states that saw heroi...

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The Modern Revolution and The Future

After the rise of agriculture, powerful civilizations such as the Persians, Romans, and Mongols exploited and developed long-distance trade routes to expand their regional influence. New transportation and navigational technologies would later connec...

HIST103: World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600-Present)

By the early 17th century, European merchants had established maritime trade networks across the Atlantic Ocean and eastward to India and China. These networks allowed them to acquire furs, tea, sugar, spices, and other luxury commodities that were i...

Ancient and Medieval history

Rosetta Stone, 196 B.C.E., granite, 114.4 cm x 72.3 × 27.9 cm or 45 × 28.5 × 11 inches, Ptolemaic Period (British Museum, London). Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Stev…...

The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910

About this Course This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. Part One begins with the political and economic revolutions of the late 1700s and tracks the transformation of the world during the 1800s. Part One concludes as these be...