My father is a professional historian who specializes in the Founding Fathers, especially George Washington. I recall a conversation I had with him, perhaps when I was an undergraduate, when I asked ...

In 2011, David Christian gave a TED Talk about “big history"—an effort to look at the history of the entire universe on a very large scale, starting 13.7 billion years ago. The idea is an audacious ...

Why is it that we no longer teach the big story of how everything came to be? Universe image from www.shutterstock.com All human societies construct and teach creation myths or origin stories. These ...

blew me away. Here’s a guy who’s read across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences and brought it together in a single framework. It made me wish that I could have taken big history when I was ...

When Karen Christensen founded Berkshire Publishing in Great Barrington, Mass., in 1998, to package encyclopedias, the term "big history," which refers to a multidisciplinary approach to world history ...

A timeline from “Big History” shows the scope of the course. Ever want to learn like Bill Gates? Now you can. Bill Gates announced today that the course Big History is now available for students who ...

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says his favorite class is "Big History." And you can take it online for free. Historian David Christian created the self-guided, online social studies ...

One of billionaire Bill Gates' newest ventures is trying to change how students learn history by promoting an interdisciplinary approach called "Big History." As detailed in a recent feature in The ...

Bryan Cranston has an authoritative voice, which all by itself would qualify him to narrate “Big History.” But there’s another reason Cranston is a fine choice for this new docuseries, which pledges ...