The UCI History Project
UCI History Program - Bibliography (5th)

Reading list for 6th-grade United States History

1. Students describe what is known through archaeological studies of the early physical and cultural development of humankind from the Paleolithic era to the agricultural revolution.

Paul G. Bahn, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art

Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years

David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

Roger Lewin, The Origin of Modern Humans

Charles L. Redman, The Rise of Civilization: From Early Farmers to Urban Society in the Ancient Near East

Robert Wenke, Patterns in Prehistory

2. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush.

Rhys Carpenter, et. Al, Everyday Life in Ancient Times

Sarah Shaver Hughes and Brady Hughes, Women in Ancient Civilizations

Sarah Milledge Nelson, Ancient Queens

Charles L. Redman, The Rise of Civilization: From Early Farmers to Urban Society in the Ancient Near East

3. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Ancient Hebrews.

4. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Ancient Greece.

5. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of India.

Romila Thapar, Early India: From the Origins to AD 130

6. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of China.

Charles Hucker, China to 1850

Joseph Evensong and Franz Schulman, China: An Interpretive History

Michael Lowe, Everyday Life in Imperial China

Frederick Mote, Intellectual Foundations of China

Wang Zhongshu, Han Civilization

7. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures during the development of Rome.