What’s the Significance?
big history, PRO-
cosmic calendar, PRO-
the three Cs, PRO-
comparative world history, PRO-
Big Picture Questions
How do modern notions of the immense size and age of the universe affect your understanding of human history?
What examples of comparison, connection, and change in world history would you like to explore further as your course unfolds?
In what larger contexts might you place your own life history?
Next Steps: For Further Study
David Christian, Cynthia Stokes Brown, and Craig Benjamin, Big History: Between Nothing and Everything (2013). A thoughtful survey of the emerging field of “big history” by three of its leading practitioners.
Ross E. Dunn, ed., The New World History: A Teacher’s Companion (2000). A collection of articles dealing with the teaching of world history.
Patrick Manning, Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (2003). An up-
J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill, The Human Web: A Bird’s-
Heidi Roupp, ed., Teaching World History in the Twenty-
“World History Matters,” http:/