title: Worlds of History, Volume 1: A Comparative Reader, to 1550
author:  Kevin Reilly 
description: <b>Kevin Reilly</b> is a professor of humanities at Raritan Valley College and has taught at Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. Cofounder and first president of the World History Association, Reilly has written numerous articles on the teaching of history and has edited works including <i>The<br />Introductory History Course</i> for the American Historical Association. A specialist in immigration history, Reilly incorporated his research in creating the Modern Global Migrations globe at Ellis Island. His work on the history of racism led to the editing of <i>Racism: A Global Reader</i>. He was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil and Jordan and an NEH fellow in Greece, Oxford (UK), and India. Awards include the Community College Humanities Association s Distinguished Educator of the Year and the World History Association s Pioneer Award. He has also served the American Historical Association in various capacities, including the governing council. He is currently writing a global history of racism."
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  AUTHOR’S NOTE
   
  Writing about history is always a difficult prospect. To begin with historians themselves are
  extremely argumentative on anything that cannot be proven or that is not carved in stone … which is
  the vast majority of human history. Years ago, Norman Cantor wrote an amazing book called
  Inventing the Middle Ages, which goes into how a historian’s views and opinions and background
  greatly color their research and conclusions. I spent many years in the history field, and in
  professional groups of historians, and have defended enough papers and opinions/conclusions to
  know firsthand just how much our opinions differ and how virulentl