The Van Loon, Hendrik Willem 1882-1944 creator text utu 2014 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Story of Mankind" by Hendrik Willem Van Loon is a book published in 1921. Written for his children, this illustrated history traces Western civilization from primitive humans through the development of writing, art, architecture, and religion to the modern nation-state. Van Loon includes only those people and events that fundamentally altered civilization's course. The book won the inaugural Newbery Medal in 1922 for outstanding children's literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mankind Release date is 2014-07-24 Produced by eagkw, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Original publication data not identified World history World history -- Juvenile literature D Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46399 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46399 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134050.0 46399