TY - BOOK AU - Van Loon,Hendrik Willem TI - The Story of Mankind AV - D PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - World history KW - World history -- Juvenile literature N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mankind; Release date is 1996-12-01; Produced by Charles Keller, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Story of Mankind" by Hendrik Willem Van Loon is a history book published in 1921. Written for Van Loon's children, it traces Western civilization from primitive humans through the development of writing, art, and religion to the modern nation-state. Van Loon included only events he deemed essential to understanding civilization's trajectory. The book won the first-ever Newbery Medal in 1922, recognizing its outstanding contribution to children's literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/754 ER -