Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
with Sources
Third AP® Edition
1 July 2025
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
The best AP® textbook to learn—and truly understand—world history.
No textbook for AP® World History shows students the big picture like Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources. In every chapter, compelling stories tied to AP® themes, make it easy to see historical developments in context and draw comparisons across time and place. The Third AP® Edition, designed specifically for the course, comes with new, comprehensive resources crafted by a master AP® teacher. This thematic, narrative history of the world is not just engaging, but meaningful—and uniquely well-aligned to AP® World History.
New to this edition:
AP® Multiple Choice questions in every chapter are now assignable and auto graded in the Norton Illumine Ebook
AP® Practice sections at the end of every chapter feature prompt-based multiple-choice questions, a short-answer question, a long essay question, and a NEW mini-DBQ featuring two written and one visual source
NEW Check Your Understanding questions in the Norton Illumine Ebook connect to the book’s core objectives and motivate students to self-assess
NEW Primary Source interactives are assignable and self-grading in the Norton Illumine Ebook, providing opportunities for strengthening history skills throughout the year
NEW “Global View” map interactives give a dynamic, visual overview of the chapter’s global themes, guiding students through concepts communicated by the map
NEW Historians’ Voice features in every section present secondary sources, modelling historical reasoning and analysis
Expanded coverage of indigenous history makes Worlds Together, Worlds Apart more inclusive than ever
The updated AP® Test Bank features nearly 1,300 questions, including 200 new AP®-style questions.
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Digital Teaching and Learning Tools
Norton Illumine eBook
Norton’s high-quality content shines brighter through engaging and motivational features that illuminate core concepts for all students in a supportive, accessible, and low-stakes environment. The active reading experience also includes the ability to highlight, take notes, search, read offline, and more. Instructors can add their own content and notes and promote student accountability through easy-to-use assignment tools in their LMS.
Map and Primary Source Exercises
To support the continued growth of students’ historical skills, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources offers a series of brief, assignable Primary Source Exercises and Map Exercises to accompany every chapter of the book. Drawing directly from the key documents, visuals, and maps in the textbook, these interactive exercises reengage students with important content that they may have skipped in the reading and provide the opportunity for critical analysis practice every week of the semester.
History Skills Tutorials
The History Skills Tutorials are interactive, online modules that support student development of key skills for the world history course. The tutorials for Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources focus on: Analysing Primary Source Documents, Analysing Images and Analysing Maps
InQuizitive
InQuizitive is Norton’s easy-to-use adaptive learning tool that personalises the learning experience for students, helping them to master—and retain—key learning objectives. Through a variety of question types, answer-specific feedback, and game-like elements such as the ability to adjust their confidence level for each question, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve mastered the concepts.
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9781324087236
201 x 241 mm • 1032 pages
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