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Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.
Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.
Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global... →
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of... →
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the... →