Big History examines history on a large scale across long time frames through a multi-disciplinary approach.Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History By David Christian Big History gives a focus on the alteration and adaptations in the human experience.Growing Up: The History of Childhood in a Global Context By Peter N. Stearns. Page 9 Big History is a discrete field of historical study that arose in the late 1980s. It is related to, but distinct from, world history, as the field examines his