Editing World history (field) (section)

==History education==

===United States===
As early as 1884, the American Historical Association advocated the study of the past on a world scale.<ref>Gilbert Allardyce,  "Toward world history: American historians and the coming of the world history course." ''Journal of World History'' 1.1 (1990): 23-76.</ref> [[T. Walter Wallbank]] and [[Alastair M. Taylor]] co-authored ''Civilization Past & Present'', the first world-history textbook published in the United States (1942). With additional authors, this very successful work went through numerous editions up to the first decade of the twenty-first century. According to the Golden Anniversary edition of 1992, the ongoing objective of ''Civilization Past & Present'' "was to present a survey of world cultural history, treating the development and growth of civilization not as a unique European experience but as a global one through which all the great culture systems have interacted to produce the present-day world. It attempted to include all the elements of history – social, economic, political, religious, aesthetic, legal, and technological."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Civilization Past & Present|last=Wallbank|first=T. Walter|display-authors=etal|publisher=HarperCollins|year=1992|isbn=978-0-673-38867-4|location=New York|pages=xxv}}</ref> Just as [[World War I]] strongly encouraged American historians to expand the study of Europe than to courses on Western civilization, [[World War II]] enhanced the global perspectives, especially regarding Asia and Africa. [[Louis R. Gottschalk|Louis Gottschalk]], William H. McNeill, and [[Leften S. Stavrianos]] became leaders in the integration of world history to the American College curriculum. Gottschalk began work on the UNESCO 'History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development' in 1951. McNeill, influenced by Toynbee, broadened his work on the 20th century to new topics. Since 1982 the World History Association at several regional associations began a program to help history professors broaden their coverage in freshman courses; world history became a popular replacement for courses on [[Western culture|Western civilization]]. Professors [[Patrick Manning (professor)|Patrick Manning]], at the University of Pittsburgh's World History Center; and [[Ross E. Dunn]] at San Diego State are leaders in promoting innovative teaching methods.<ref>Patrick Manning, ''Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past'' (2003); [[Ross E. Dunn]], ed., ''The New World History: A Teacher's Companion.'' (2000).</ref>

In related disciplines, such as art history and architectural history, global perspectives have been promoted as well. In schools of architecture in the U.S., the [[National Architectural Accrediting Board]] now requires that schools teach history that includes a non-west or global perspective. This reflects a decade-long effort to move past the standard Euro-centric approach that had dominated the field.<ref>See Points 8 and 9. http://www.naab.org/adaview.aspx?pageid=120 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318061415/http://www.naab.org/adaview.aspx?pageid=120 |date=2014-03-18 }}</ref>