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Peter Nathaniel Stearns (born March 3, 1936) is a professor at George Mason University, where he was provost from January 1, 2000 to July 2014. [1]Stearns was chair of the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and also served as the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (now named Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences) at Carnegie Mellon University.
In 2012, the head of AP Grading, Trevor Packer, stated that the reason for the low percentages of 5s is that "AP World History is a college-level course, & many sophomores aren't yet writing at that level." 10.44 percent of all seniors who took the exam in 2012 received a 5, while just 6.62 percent of sophomores received a 5.
The Encyclopedia of World History is a classic single-volume work detailing world history. The first through fifth editions were edited by William L. Langer. The Sixth Edition contained over 20,000 entries and was overseen by Peter N. Stearns. It was made available online until removed in 2009.
A History of the Modern World is a work initially published by the distinguished American historian at Princeton and Yale universities Robert Roswell Palmer in 1950. The work has since been extended by Joel Colton (from its second edition, 1956) [ 1 ] and Lloyd S. Kramer (from its ninth edition, 2001), [ 2 ] and currently counts 12 editions.
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Stearns eventually was able to write his own work focused on the English refugees, Congregationalism in the Dutch Netherlands (1940), which won the Frank S. Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church History. Stearns spent the 1936–1937 academic year as the head of the history department at Lake Forest College and then settled in Urbana ...
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
The term 'world history' is trickier than it might at first seem in that 'World History' has a technical sense, denoting a particular movement in historical research. On the other hand, this article arguably takes a World History approach, so maybe that would be appropriate.