I am teaching HIST 110 History of the Western World I this fall semester at Northern Illinois and am once again revamping the readings.

I have decided to go with a new interpretive essay, Josephine Quinn’s How the World Made the West (2024), as the core reading for the course.

This work questions the idea of the West from various perspectives and provides a metahistorical approach to the history of the ancient and medieval worlds.

We’ll see what the undergraduate students think of this work as we move through the history of the West and the World….