Peter Stearns

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Peter Stearns is a professor of history at George Mason University, where he is currently provost (su=ince January 1, 2000) with almost 40 years of experience as a teacher and administrator behind him. He is active in historical groups such as the American Historical Society, the Society of French Historical Studies, the Social Science History Association, and the International Society for Research on Emotion. He attended Harvard College and later received his PhD. from Harvard University. In his prolific career as an author and editor, he has written or edited over 85 works of literature. Stearns currently serves as chair of the Advanced Placement World History committee. His books include:

• The Encyclopedia of World History
• World History in Brief
• World Civilizations
• World History in Documents
• Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives
• Anxious Parents
• Cultures in Motion
• 1848: The Revolutionary Tide in Europe
• The Industrial Revolution in World History
• Fat History
• Emotion and Social Change
• Global Outrage
• American Behavioral History
• Growing Up
• American Cool
• A Day in the Life
• Battleground of Desire
• World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity