In addition, they will have a new understanding of the relevance of geography to not only human history but contemporary events, as well as their day-to-day lives. By presenting this history from a ...

Traveling the world provides valuable experiences as you see how vast and ever-changing it is. You also learn more about ...

World history and world geography have dominated the growth in high school coursetaking in the social studies. *Click image to see the full chart.

(CTK) Geography class used to mean poring over maps and learning the tributaries of the Nile. But those days appear to be gone -- at least in the United States. A new poll, conducted on behalf of ...

How this YouTuber created a travel encyclopedia of the world. Over the past decade, the creator and host of the ‘Geography Now’ web series Paul 'Barbs' Barbato has profiled every United ...

Since 2002, the AP World History course has covered thousands of years of human activity around the planet, starting 10,000 years back. But now the College Board, which owns the Advanced Placement ...

To understand many of the triumphs, tragedies and conflicts in the world, geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan says to look no further than a map. In his book The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan argues ...

Geography is a much smaller part of the standards than it was three years ago when the stand-alone seventh-grade world geography course was, inexplicably, eliminated from the curriculum.

World history and geography will be spread across seventh through ninth grade; Schools will have more time to teach events from the 1970s onward; New electives will focus on local history, ...