World History

Each page here notes the ages it is written for. For younger children, start with Stories from History, our course for ages 9 and 10.

Pages

• The Gulag: The Soviet Camps, 1918–1960The Soviet forced-labor camps, 1918 to 1960: an interactive map of the camps year by year, the numbers from the archives, Solzhenitsyn, and remembrance.Written for teens and adults. It describes hardship and loss in plain words, without graphic detail. A short section for younger readers is near the end.

More history on the site

• Stories from HistoryThe world's story for ages 9 and 10, from the first farmers to the year 2000.
• TimelineThe ancient world from the first kings of Egypt to the fall of Rome, with a few later moments.
• EgyptAncient Egypt: its kings, its writing and its monuments.
• American History & CivicsCourses from the first Americans to the present, and the Constitution.