World history classes have only a limited amount of time during the school year to cover millennia of important events. It ...

World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees ...

In fall 2019, the College Board will implement a new curriculum for one of its Advanced Placement courses: AP World History will now be called AP World History: Modern. More than 300,000 students sat ...

Over the past 100 years, we’ve witnessed some of the most profound changes in human history. Between a pandemic, wars, technological developments, progress in civil rights, and breakthroughs in ...

WikiLeaks last week announced quite a data dump: 500,000 diplomatic cables from the U.S. State Department from 1978. Dubbed the "Carter Cables II," the new documents track U.S. "interactions with, and ...

Had Britain's wartime leader truly stood alone in his opposition to appeasement, or did he rewrite history to portray himself in a better light? By Professor John Charmley. The rows were explosive, ...

Although the potato is now associated with industrial-scale monoculture, the International Potato Center in Peru has preserved almost 5,000 varieties. Martin Mejia / AP Images When potato plants bloom ...

The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian general Themistocles, on ...