The first and only books to combine academic scholarship with the power and breadth of Wikipedia. Instead of a book filled with timelines, maps, dates and pictures, this book connects historical narrative to real-time information using links to Wikipedia. And unlike most historical accounts, this book as written by Bernard F Reilly, professor emeritus of History at Villanova University, is not a list of dates and events. rather it connects the impact of technological, societal and economic developments on the people, politics and communities as they progress through the ages.