
Peter N. Stearns is a professor at George Mason University, where he was provost, from January 1, 2000 to July 2014. Stearns was Chair of the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and also served as the Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition, he founded and edited the Journal of Social History. While at Carnegie Mellon he developed a pioneering approach to teaching World History.

The Revolutionary Tide in Europe
1974

2007

2007

Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style
1994

A History of Modern Childrearing in America
2002

The Struggle for Self -Control in Modern America
1999

2005

The Global Transformation of Desire
2001

Mapping Key Contacts and Their Imprints in World History
2001

Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West
1997

2000

2009

The History of Childhood in Global Context
2005

2012

1991

National and International Perspectives
2000

2009

2009

A Brief History
2017

Una prospettiva globale
2025

2001

1993

2003

The Global Experience
1992

The Basics
2010

Major Patterns of Change and Continuity
1990

A Comparative Reader
1998