Past to Present:Ideas That Changed Our World : Ideas That Changed Our World

For Freshman Composition, honors and advanced composition, history of ideas courses, Humanities, and for courses that emphasize writing across the disciplines. Past to Present encapsulates for students essential readings from the fields of humanities, social science, and science of the great ideas that have changed our world.

It is divided into seven thematic parts that trace the history of important ideas from their roots to their current incarnations.

Each of the 74 readings includes discussions that focus on the history of the idea, the writer's rhetorical strategies, and the context in which the piece was written.