volume 1. In antiquity / edited by Denise Eileen McCoskey -- volume 2. In the middle ages / edited by Thomas Hahn -- volume 3. In the renaissance and early modern age / edited by Kimberly Anne Coles and Dorothy Kim -- volume 4. In the reformation and enlightenment / edited by Nicholas Hudson -- volume 5. In the age of empire and the nation state / edited by Marina B. Mogilner -- volume 6. In the modern and genomic age / edited by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza