作者簡介
 
維吉爾．希利爾（Virgil Mores Hillyer）
 
美國傑出教育家，畢生從事中小學教育，酷愛歷史和藝術，喜歡旅行。出生於麻州韋茅斯鎮。哈佛大學教育系畢業後，在紐約的白朗寧學校教了兩年書，隨後遷往巴爾地摩，擔任卡爾維特學校的第一任校長。希利爾創建的小學函授教育系統，即「卡爾維特學校體系」，惠及世界各地的政府雇員、領事、軍官和傳教士的子女。

• 1 How Things Started
• 2 People Who Lived in Caves
• 3 Fire! Fire! Fire!
• 4 From an Airplane
• 5 Real History Begins
6 The Puzzle Writers in Egypt
7 The Tomb Builders
8 A Rich Land Where There Was No Money
9 The Jews Search for a Home
10 Fairy-Tale Gods
11 A Fairy-Tale War
12 The Kings of the Jews
13 The People Who Made Our A B C’s
14 Hard as Nails
15 The Crown of Leaves
16 A Bad Beginning
17 Kings with Corkscrew Curls
18 A City of Wonders and Wickedness
19 A Surprise Party
20 The Other Side of the World: India
21 All the Way Around the World in China
22 Rich Man, Poor Man
23 Rome Kicks Out Her Kings
24 Greece vs. Persia
25 Fighting Mad
26 One Against a Thousand
27 The Golden Age
28 When Greek Meets Greek
29 Wise Men and Otherwise
30 A Boy King
31 Picking a Fight
32 The Boot Kicks and Stamps
33 The New Champion of the World
34 The Noblest Roman of Them All
35 An Emperor Who Was Made a God
36 “Thine Is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory”
37 Blood and Thunder
38 A Good Emperor and a Bad Son
39 I_H_ _S_ _ _ _V_ _ _ _ _
40 Barbarian Invaders
41 Barbarians Meet the Champions of the World
42 New Places—New Heroes
43 Being Good
44 A Christian Kingdom in Africa
45 Muhammad and the Early Years of Islam
46 Arabian Days
47 Two Empires, Two Emperors
48 Getting a Start
49 The End of the World
50 Real Castles
51 Knights and Days of Chivalry
52 A Pirate’s Great Grandson
53 A Great Adventure
54 Tick-Tack-Toe; Three Kings in a Row
55 Three Kingdoms in West Africa
56 Bibles Made of Stone and Glass
57 John, Whom Nobody Loved
58 A Great Story Teller
59 “Thing-a-ma-jigger” and “What-cher-may-call-it” or a Magic Needle and a Magic Powder
60 Thelon Gest Wart Hate Verwas
61 Print and Powder or Off with the Old, On with the New
62 A Sailor Who Found a New World
63 Fortune Hunters
64 The Land of Enchantment or the Search for Gold and Adventure
65 Along the Coast of East Africa
66 Rebirth
67 Christians Quarrel
68 Queen Elizabeth
69 The Age of Elizabeth
70 James the Servant or What’s in a Name
71 A King Who Lost His Head
72 Red Cap and Red Heels
73 A Self-Made Man
74 A Prince Who Ran Away
75 America Gets Rid of Her King
76 Upside Down
77 A Little Giant
78 Latin America and the Caribbean Islands
79 From Pan and His Pipes to the Phonograph
80 The Daily Papers of 1854—1865
81 Three New Postage Stamps
82 The Age of Miracles
83 A Different Kind of Revolution
84 A World at War
85 A Short Twenty Years
86 Modern Barbarians
87 Fighting the Dictators
88 A New Spirit in the World
89 A New BIG POWER in the World
90 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow