Big History, Small World: From the Big Bang to You - Softcover

Big history becomes engaging and personal in Big History, Small World by Cynthia Stokes Brown, the only guide to a new approach to history that has been specifically designed for high school students and tied to the free curriculum provided online by the Bill Gates funded Big History Project.

Cynthia Stokes Brown has taught world history in high-school and trained high-school teachers at Dominican University of California, USA where she piloted big history courses and helped initiate the big history program now required for all freshmen. She is the author of the general-interest book on big history, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present (New York: New Press, 2nd ed. 2012) and also wrote a university-level textbook with David Christian and Craig Benjamin, Big History: Between Nothing and Everything (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014). She is a founding member of the International Big History Association and associate editor of its publication, Origins.