Second Thoughts

LearningCurve
Check What You Know.

What’s the Significance?

big history, liv

cosmic calendar, liv

comparative history, lx

the three Cs, lx

Big Picture Questions

  1. Question

    How do modern notions of the immense size and age of the universe affect your understanding of human history?

  2. Question

    What examples of comparison, connection, and change in world history would you like to explore further as your course unfolds?

  3. Question

    In what larger contexts might you place your own life history?

Next Steps: For Further Study

David Christian, Maps of Time (2004). A brilliant survey of “big history” by a leading world historian.

Ross Dunn, ed., The New World History (2000). A collection of articles dealing with the teaching of world history.

Patrick Manning, Navigating World History (2003). An up-to-date overview of the growth of world history, the field’s achievements, and the debates within it.