Our World's Story: The Tales, Traditions and Turning Points of World History and the Regional Challenges of Today - Softcover

Eric Burnett has been a classroom educator for over two decades, teaching everything from 3rd Grade to 12th grade, American Literature to Game Theory, Psychology to The History of War. Over the past ten years, he's settled into the high school humanities world where he frequently frustrates his students by testing their ability to recognize verbal irony delivered by a fast-talking mumbler, while hopefully imparting some knowledge and skills along the way. He developed the #1 ranked teacher-created AP World History and AP United States History websites on Google. Combined, they've attracted over two million hits since their inception, making life just a bit easier for a generation of budding historians and last minute test crammers. He currently teaches overseas at an expatriate school, where his exposure to a range of cultures and perspectives has provided him an opportunity quite rare for American educators. In his travels, he's been fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of Mt. Everest, ride a camel in Petra, stage an Amazing Race duel in Paris, trek across Tasmania, lose his lunch sailing the Indian Ocean and dance awkwardly with some talented kids in South Africa. But the more he pokes holes in his world map of been theres/done thats, the more he realizes he's embarrassed by how little he's actually seen. He started writing "Our World's Story" after his first year of teaching AP World History. Like the vast majority of teachers currently charged with making sense of world history, his formal training was limited to European and United States history. When he saw there was a huge gap for an accessible, engaging book for the newbie teacher and the oft-bored student, the researching and writing adventure began.