Bonnie G. Smith (AB Smith College, PhD University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, Rutgers University. Marc Van De Mieroop (PhD Yale University, 1983) is Professor of History at Columbia University. Richard von Glahn (PhD Yale University, 1983) is Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles. Kris Lane (PhD University of Minnesota, 1996) holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University in New Orleans.

World in the Making provides students with a solid base for learning; it also allows 'space' for professors to elaborate on topics. The text has a number of pedagogical features that help guide student learning and can be used to facilitate broader class discussions. It makes excellent use of visual evidence and material culture to illustrate and support its points."- Heather Wadas, Shippensburg State University