Vol. 6 No. 3: Fall 2009

• Editor's Message

  Marc Jason Gilbert

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Forum on Big History

• Introduction

  Craig Benjamin

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• Big History: The Emergence of an Interdisciplinary Science?

  Fred Spier

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• "A child said, 'What is the grass?'": Reflections on the Big History of the Poaceae

  Jonathan Markley

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• A Geologial Perspective on Big History

  Walter Alvarez

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• What Is a Civilization, Anyway?

  Cynthia Stokes Brown

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• "Contingency, Pattern and the S-curve in Human History"

  David Christian

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• 'The Convergence of Logic, Faith and Values in the Modern Creation Myth'

  Craig Benjamin

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• Challenges and Opportunities: Reflections on Teaching Big History Discussion Sections

  Lauren McArthur Harris Harris, Sarah Hamilton

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Interview

• Interview with John McNeill

  Tom Laichas

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Articles

• A Big History Directory, 2009: An Introduction

  Barry Rodrigue, Daniel Stasko

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• Bringing Big History Down to Classroom Size: Concepts and Resources

  John Maunu

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• Using a Japanese War Crime Trial Simulation to Expand Students' Understanding of the Roots of Wartime Atrocities, Mass Killings and Genocide

  Anthony Pattiz

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• Engaging Students to Act Like Historians: Ideas to Entice Thoughtful Collaboration and Positive Interactions Before Students Begin to Complain that History is Boring!

  James A. Diskant

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• Why do students find reading history challenging?

  Sharon Cohen

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Featured Review

• A Short History of Big History

  William Everdell

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Book Reviews

• Mazower, Mark, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950

  Steve Goldberg

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• Genet, Cheryl, Russell Genet, et.al., eds., The Evolutionary Epic: Science's Story and Humanity's Response

  Helen Grady

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• Yasutaro (Keiho) Soga, Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawai'i Issei

  Alan Rosenfeld

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