Textbook developed around five guiding questions about history from medieval times to today, including physical geography, belief systems, technological accomplishments, patterns of daily life and interaction with other societies. Covers the Byzantine and Muslim empires, civilizations of Africa and the Ancient Americas, Asia, Europe in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, and ends with changes in the Western World through the Second World War.

Program authors, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Brenda Randolph, Michal L. LeVasseur ; content consultants for Medieval times to today, Barbara Brown ... et al. Includes extensive Reference section (p. 224-273).