About this series

Bridging World History looks at global patterns through time, seeing history as an integrated whole. Topics are studied in a general chronological order, but each is examined through a thematic lens, showing how people and societies experience both integration and differences. Interviews with leading world history textbook authors and nationally known historians are included in the 26 half-hour programs. The series web site, www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory, includes an archive of over 1,000 primary source documents and artifacts, journal articles from the Journal of World History and other publications, and a thematic interactive activity on interrelationships across time and place.