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Open Educational Resources: History OER

Major Repositories

LardBucket 2012

Creative Commons-licensed copies of all the books which were available online from a specific publisher at the end of 2012.

Free and open learning materials for job-driven workforce development

Repository for the Open University in the United Kingdom.

Open Textbooks

Video collections

TedEd: Government Declassified
This TedEd collection in particular has a lot of sources on American History.
Crash Course - US History (YouTube)

Films on Demand is a subscription database of educational films. 1Hope Login required. Some American History series in this collection:

Other resources

Big History
An open course covering a BROAD view of history, "from the Big Bang to the modern day — and to what may lie ahead,"
Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
Over 400 oral history interviews chronicling African-American life from the 1890s to the 1950s.

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Van Wylen Library LibGuide on Open Educational Resources (OER) is a derivative/remix of Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER) by NMC Librarians.and Eastern Michigan University's Textbook Alternatives Library Research Guide by Kate Pittsley-Sousa.