The Story of Mankind
1921
Hendrik van Loon's history of the world for children, written for his own two grandsons and awarded the first Newbery Medal in 1922. Sixty-odd short chapters run from prehistory to the aftermath of the Great War, and van Loon is candid throughout about what he has left out and why.
- For Hansje and Willem
- The Setting of the Stage
- Our Earliest Ancestors
- Prehistoric Man
- Hieroglyphics
- The Nile Valley
- The Story of Egypt
- Mesopotamia
- The Sumerians
- Moses
- The Phoenicians
- The Indo-Europeans
- The Aegean Sea
- The Greeks
- The Greek Cities
- Greek Self-Government
- Greek Life
- The Greek Theatre
- The Persian Wars
- ATHENS vs. SPARTA
- Alexander the Great
- Rome and Carthage
- The Rise of Rome
- The Roman Empire
- Joshua of Nazareth
- The Fall of Rome
- Rise of the Church
- Mohammed
- Charlemagne
- The Norsemen
- Feudalism
- Chivalry
- POPE vs. EMPEROR
- The Crusades
- The Mediaeval City
- Mediaeval Self-Government
- The Mediaeval World
- Mediaeval Trade
- The Renaissance
- The Age of Expression
- The Great Discoveries
- Buddha and Confucius
- The Reformation
- Religious Warfare
- The English Revolution
- The Balance of Power
- The Rise of Russia
- RUSSIA vs. SWEDEN
- The Rise of Prussia
- The Mercantile System
- The American Revolution
- The French Revolution
- Napoleon
- The Holy Alliance
- The Great Reaction
- National Independence
- The Age of the Engine
- The Social Revolution
- Emancipation
- The Age of Science
- Art
- Colonial Expansion and War
- A New World
- As It Ever Shall Be
- Concerning the Pictures
- An Historical Reading List for Children