Alan Karras

Alan Karras, lead media author and author of the Worlds Together, Worlds Apart AP Edition (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is the associate director of International and Area Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and has previously served as chair of the College Board’s test development committee for world history and as co-chair for the College Board’s commission on AP history course revisions. The author and editor of several books, he has written about the eighteenth-century Atlantic World and, more broadly, global interactions that focus on illicit activities like smuggling and corruption. An advocate of linking the past to the present, he is now working on a history of corruption in empires, focusing on the East India Company.

Alan Karras

Alan Karras, lead media author and author of the Worlds Together, Worlds Apart AP Edition (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is the associate director of International and Area Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and has previously served as chair of the College Board’s test development committee for world history and as co-chair for the College Board’s commission on AP history course revisions. The author and editor of several books, he has written about the eighteenth-century Atlantic World and, more broadly, global interactions that focus on illicit activities like smuggling and corruption. An advocate of linking the past to the present, he is now working on a history of corruption in empires, focusing on the East India Company.

Books by Alan Karras

  • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: with Sources

    Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin

    Second Ap® Edition, Paperback, 2021

    The most accessible textbook built around the AP World History curriculum.
  • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: with Sources

    Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin

    Second Ap® Edition, E Book, 2020

    The most accessible textbook built around the AP World History curriculum
  • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources

    Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin

    Concise Second Edition, Combined Volume, E Book, 2019

    A streamlined and simplified global history.
  • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources

    Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin

    Concise Second Edition, 1, E Book, 2019

    A streamlined and simplified global history.
  • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: with Sources

    Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin

    Second Ap® Edition, Paperback, 2020

    The most accessible textbook built around the AP World History curriculum
  • Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: with Sources

    Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Lee Benjamins

    Third Ap® Edition, Paperback, 2025

    The best AP textbook to learn—and truly understand—world history.