The following is a sample of textbooks and readers compiled by Adam McKeown, Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern Univertsity. The list can be browsed by following these links:

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• Univertsity Level Texts
  
• University Level Sourcebooks
  
• Alternative Suggestions
  
• High School Level Texts
  
• High School Level Sourcebooks
  

• Philip Adler. World Civilizations. Thomson Learning, 1996.
  
  
• Jerry Bentley and Herbert Zeigler. Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. McGraw Hill, 1999.
  
  
• Palmira Brummett, Robert Edgar, Neil Hackett, and George Jewsbury. Civilization: Past and Present.. 9th edition. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
  
  
• Richard Bulliet, Pamela Crossley, Daniel Headrick, Steven Hirsch, Lyman Johnson, and David Northrup. The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
  
  
• Albert Craig, William Graham, Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment. The Heritage of World Civilizations, 4th edition. Prentice Hall, 1999.
  
  
• S. Ross Doughty and Howard Spodek. The World¹s History. Prentice Hall, 1999.
  
  
• William Duiker and Jackson Spielvogel. World History. 2nd edition. Wadsworth, 1998.
  
  
• Anthony Esler. The Human Venture: A World History. 4th edition. Prentice Hall, 1999.
  
  
• Lanny Fields, Russell Barber, and Cheryl Riggs. The Global Past. St. Martin¹s, 1998.
  
  
• Candice Goucher, Charles LeGuin, and Linda Walton. In the Balance: A Thematic Global History. McGraw Hill, 1998.
  
  
• Richard Greaves, Robert Zaller, Rhoads Murphey. Civilizations of the World: The Human Adventure. 3rd edition. Harper Collins, 1998.
  
  
• Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, and Patricia O¹Brien, R. Bin Wong. Societies and Cultures in World History. 2nd edition. Harper Collins, 1997.
  
  
• John McKay, Bennett Hill, John Buckler, and Patricia Ebrey. A History of World Societies. 5th edition. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
  
  
• William McNeill. A History of the Human Community, 5th edition. Prentice-Hall, 1996.
  
  
• Philip Lee Ralph, Robert Learner and Standish Meacham. World Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture. 9th edition. W. W. Norton, 1997.
  
  
• Kevin Reilly. The West and The World: A History of Civilization. Markus Weiner, 1997.
  
  
• Howard Spodek. World History. Prentice Hall, 1998.
  
  
• Leften Stavrianos. A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century. 7th edition. Prentice Hall, 1999.
  
  
• Peter Stearns. World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity. 3rd edition. Longman, 1998.
  
  
• Peter Stearns, Michael Adas, and Stuat Schwartz. World Civilizations: The Global Experience. 2nd. edition. Addison-Wesley, 1996.
  
  
• Robert Strayer, Robert Smith, and Robert Marks. The Making of the Modern World : Connected Histories, Divergent Paths 1500 to the Present . 2nd edition. St. Martin¹s Press, 1995.
  
  
• Jiu-Hwa Upshur, Janice Terry, James Holoka, Richard Goff, and George Cassar. World History. 3rd edition. Wadsworth, 1999.
  
  
• T. Walter Wallbank and Nels Bailkey. Civilization Past and Present. 8th edition. Addison-Welsley, 1997
  

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• Alfred Andrea and James Overfield. The Human Record: Sources of Global History. 3rd edition. Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
  
  
• Russell Barber, Lanny Fields, and Cheryl Riggs. Reading the Global Past : Selected Historical Documents. Bedford, 1998.
  
  
• Charles Frazee. World History: Original and Secondary Source Readings. Greenhaven, 1999.
  
  
• Mark Kishlansky and Susan Lively. Sources of World History: Readings for World Civilization. 2nd edition. Wadsworth, 1999.
  
  
• Marc Meyer. The Search for Order: Landmarks of World Civilization. Dushkin, 1994.
  
  
• Lynn Nelson, Steven Drummond, and Stephanie Nelson. The Human Perspective: Readings in World Civilization. 2nd edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovic, 1997 (Secondary readings).
  
  
• Lynn and Stephanie Nelson. A Global Perspective: Source Readings from World Civilizations. Harcourt Brace Jovanovic, 1989.
  
  
• Kevin Reilly. Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader. 4th edition. St. Martin¹s Press, 1999 (Primary and secondary readings).
  
  
• Stuart Schwartz, Robert Wolf, and Linda Wimmer. The Global Experience: Readings in World History. 2nd edition. Addison-Wesley, 1997 (Primary and secondary readings).
  
  
• Dennis Sherman, A. Tom Grunfeld, and Gerald Markowitz. World Civilizations : Sources, Images, and Interpretations. McGraw Hill, 1997. (Primary and Secondary)
  
  
• Peter Stearns. World History in Documents: A Comparative Reader. New York University, 1998.
  
  
• Merry Wiesner, William Wheeler, Franklin Doeringer, and Melvin Page. Discovering the Global Past: A Look at the Evidence. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
  
  

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• Benjamin Barber. Jihad Vs. McWorld: How the Planet is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together. Ballantine, 1996.
  
  
• David Fromkin, Way of the World : From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of The Twenty-First Century, Knopf, 1999.
  
  
• Samuel Huntington. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Touchstone, 1998.
  
  
• Paul Kennedy. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers : Economic Change and Military: Conflict from 1500 to 2000. Vintage, 1989.
  
  
• Thomas Sowell. Conquests and Cultures : An International History. Basic Books, 1998.
  
  
• _____. Migrations and Cultures: A Worldview. Harper Collins, 1997.
  
  
• _____. Race and Culture: A World View. Basic Books, 1995.
  
  
• Leften Stavrianos. Lifelines from Our Past: A New World History. Revised ed. Pantheon, 1997.
  
  
• Peter Taylor. Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality. Addison-Wesley. 3rd edition, 1993.
  
  

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High School Level Texts

• Iftikhar Ahmad, et al. World Cultures: A Global Mosaic. Prentice Hall, 1999.
  
  
• Roger Beck, et al. World History: Patterns of Interaction. McDougal Littell, 1999.
  
  
• Mounir Farah and Andrea Karls. World History: The Human Experience. McGraw Hill, 1999.
  
  
• Miriam Greenblatt and Peter Lemmo. Human Heritages. McGraw-Hill, 1999.
  
  
• William Hanes, ed. World History: Continuity and Change. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1999.
  
  
• Larry Kreger, et al. World History: Perspectives on the Past. McDougal Littell, 1997.
  
  
• Anatole Mazour and John Peoples. World History: People and Nations. Harcourt, Brace Jovanovic, 1993.
  
  
• Jackson Spielvogel. World History: The Human Odyssey. West Educational, 1995.
  
  

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• Henry Abraham and Irwin Pfeffer. Enjoying Global History. Amsco School Publications, 1996.
  
  
• Ross Dunn and David Vigilate. Bring History Alive. National Center for History in the Schools, 1996.