IN 1920 H.G. Wells published his "Outline of History". It was meant to awaken people to the realisation that only a rationally ordered world-state would save humanity from destroying itself. The "Outline" sold 3m copies. Yet if an undergraduate today were to present...

Gaines, Ann Graham. Captain Cook Explores the Pacific in World History. 128pp. 0-7660-1823-7 --. Hernando de Soto and the Spanish Search for Gold in World History. 112pp. 0-7660-1821-0 2002. $20.95. ea. hc. Enslow Publishers. Grades 6-8 These short volumes provide...

At the end of a long and productive life, the wise, curious, generous, opinionated and angelically literate art historian Ernst Gombrich decided to translate into his adopted English a book he’d published in his native Vienna some 65 years before, Eine Kurze Weltgeschichte für Junge...

At the end of a long and productive life, the wise, curious, generous, opinionated and angelically literate art historian Ernst Gombrich decided to translate into his adopted English a book he’d published in his native Vienna some 65 years before, Eine Kurze Weltgeschichte für Junge...

This essay covers the three most important things in world history that have made the world what it is today.  There are reasons for each of the three things.

An outline of how the history of the world would be written for a textbook or history course.