ABSTRACT
The Big History Project (BHP) has been more than a curriculum in big history. It has been a design experiment in teaching and learning. In addition to providing a course in big history for thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of students around the world, the BHP team used research and theory to engineer, study, and revise forms of learning to help meet some enduring challenges that history teachers and students face in “doing” the teaching and learning of history. The BHP is a comprehensive program offering a course in big history for secondary students. It delivers to teachers and students all its resources and materials online. Bill Gates’ interest in Christian’s course in big history launched BHP in 2011. “The study of history,” E. H. Carr claimed “is a study of causes,” a claim that should resonate with those who study big history.
