History: Free Online Courses

Get free History courses online from the world’s leading universities. You can download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. For more online courses, visit our complete collection of Free Courses Online.

African American History: Emancipation to the Present – Free Online Video - Course Materials - Jonathan Holloway, Yale
African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Clay Carson, Stanford
American Economic History (Syllabus) - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
American Economic History (Syllabus) – Free Online Video - Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst
Ancient Greek History - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Audio - Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - Donald Kagan, Yale
Ancient Israel - Free Online Video & Resources - Free Online Video - Daniel Fleming, NYU
Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations – Free Online Video & Course Info - John Dower, MIT
Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment – Free iTunes Audio - Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz
China: Traditions and Transformations – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Peter K. Bol & William Kirby, Harvard
Colonial and Revolutionary America – Free iTunes Audio - Jack Rakove, Stanford
Early Modern England: Politics, Religion & Society under the Tudors and Stuarts – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
Early Modern Germany - Free iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 - Free iTunes Video- Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Video - Course Materials - Frank Snowden, Yale
Europe in the 19th Century – Free iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 –Free iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
European Civilization, 1648-1945 - Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - John Merriman, Yale
European Civilization from Renaissance to Present – Free iTunes Audio - Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley
European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present -Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video – Free Online Audio - Thomas Laqueur, UC Berkeley
European Cultural History, 1500-1815 - Free Online Audio - George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
European Cultural History, 1660-1870 - Free Online Audio - George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
European Cultural History, 1880-1920 - Free Online Audio - George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
France Since 1871 – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - John Merriman, Yale
Hannibal – Free iTunes Audio - Patrick Hunt, Stanford
Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975-1983) – Free Online Audio - Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
Historical Jesus – Free iTunes Audio – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
History of Anthropological Thought – Free iTunes Audio -Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley
History and Practice of Human Rights – Free Online Video – Free Video 2 - Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Thomas Laqueur
History of Information – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video –Free Online Video 2 - Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
History of Iran to the Safavid Period – Free iTunes Audio - Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan - Free iTunes Audio - John Wallace, UC Berkeley
History of the International System – Free iTunes Audio - James Sheehan, Stanford University
History of MIT – Web - David Mindell and Merritt Roe Smith, MIT
History of the Modern Middle East – Free iTunes Audio - Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
History of New York City: A Social History (Syllabus) - Free Online Video & Course Info - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
History of the United States Since 1945 – Free iTunes Audio -Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
History of the United States Since 1877 – Free iTunes Video - Dominic Capeci
History of the World to 1500 CE – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
History of the World Since 1500 CE – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 - Free iTunes Video - Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
International and Global History Since 1945 – Free iTunes Audio -Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
Introduction to African American Studies – Real Player Video- Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
Introduction to Ancient Greek History - Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - Donald Kagan, Yale
Introduction to American Studies – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio – Michael Cohen, UC Berkeley
Maker of the Modern World? Imperial Britain, 1714 to the Present (Syllabus) – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
Medicine and Public Health in American History – Free Online Audio - Chris Hamlin, Notre Dame
Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present - Free Online Video – Lynn Hunt, UCLA
Modern Jewish History – Free Online Audio - George Mosse, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Rethinking the Black Liberation Movement - Free Online Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
Rethinking Theory in Black Studies - Free Online Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
Science, Magic and Religion - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video– Courtenay Raia, UCLA
The American Founders and Their World – Free iTunes Audio -Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
The American Revolution – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video- Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials- Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
The Ancient Mediterranean World – Free Online Audio - Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - David Blight, Yale
The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video & Audio - Course Materials - Paul H. Freedman, Yale
The History of Public Health – Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio & Course Materials - Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins
The Kennedy Half Century – Free iTunes Video – Larry Sabato, University of Virginia
The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Video – Free Online Video - James Vernon, UC Berkeley
The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – Free iTunes Audio –Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
The Roman World - Free iTunes Video - Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University
The Story of Freedom in America - Free iTunes Video – Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma
The United States and the World Since 1945 - Free iTunes Audio –Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
U.S. History from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World War II – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio –Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
US History: from Civil War to Present - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley
The Western Tradition (Video) - Free Online Video - Course Outline– Eugen Weber, UCLA
War and Peace: International Relations since 1914 – Free iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II –Free Course in Multiple Formats – Charles S. Maier, Harvard