This revised textbook program covers the beginning of human society to contemporary times. With an easy-to-follow format, the text encourages students to read and gain more understanding about the world in which they live.

World History provides engaging features such as a History in Your Life and Then and Now, which make history relevant to students' lives. Biographies, Spotlight Stories, Map Skills and Map Studies, and Document-Based Readings provide multiple perspectives from which to view and learn about history.