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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New York Times Magazine chronicles the Big History Project, a new history curriculum funded by Bill Gates that is rapidly being taken up by high schools across the country. Mr. Gates financed 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 ...