Robert C. Pianta, Ph.D., Former Dean and Bicentennial Professor, School of Education and Human Development, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
“Garson has created a phenomenally unique volume sure to be a resource for educators and students as they grapple with history and its implications for contemporary life. Set as vignettes in historical contexts, a family discusses a pressing controversy of the day that also has relevance today. These brief narratives are a treasure trove to stimulate projects, arts, and collaborations—all to deepen knowledge and awareness of big ideas in human history and the conditions that shaped them.”
Andrew Davis, Ph.D.,Dean and Professor, Cullen Foundation Endowed Chair McGovern College of the Arts, University of Houston
“In an era in which the arts of engaged conversation, deep discussion, and reasoned debate has waned—a loss for all of us—Garson has written an absorbing, inventive book that revives exactly these skills. At the same time Garson has produced a compete history of the world with an almost miraculous ability to filter several millennia of human history into the most instructive and pivotal events. The result is eminently readable and downright entertaining at the same time—a must read for almost any imaginable reader.”
William W. Pinsky, MD, EVP Emeritus, Ochsner Health, New Orleans and Professor (Hon.), University of Queensland, Australia
“Garson helps us understand how history continues to inform our lives today. This is a history book like no others, as it transforms our learning processes with the presentation of key events and through entertaining simulated debates—all who want to understand the history of the world in an enjoyable way, will want to read and have their own discussions.”
Kirkus Reviews
“Garson offers an informative look at controversies from around the world, presented as discussions around a dinner table…Overall, this book would be a good pick for libraries, as it would work well as a starting point for teachers to introduce historical events in a digestible way.”
