Free Online History Courses

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• A Tale of Three Super Powers - Free iTunes Video - Joseph Huges, Missouri State
• African American History: Emancipation to the Present - Free Online Course - Jonathan Holloway, Yale
• African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle - Free Online Course - Clay Carson, Stanford
• Age of Cathedrals - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Yale University
• Age of Jefferson - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - University of Virginia
• America Through Foreign Eyes - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Rice University
• American Economic History (Syllabus) - Free Online Video - Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
• American Economic History (Syllabus) - Free Online Video - Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst
• American Environmental History - Free Online Video - Dan Allosso, UMass-Amherst
• Ancient Greece: City and Society - Free iTunes Audio - Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
• Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War - Free iTunes Audio - Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
• Ancient Greek History - Free Online Course - Donald Kagan, Yale
• Ancient Israel - Free Online Video + Course Info - Free iTunes Video - Daniel Fleming, NYU
• Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations - Free Online Video & Course Info - John Dower, MIT
• Australian Aboriginal History - Free iTunes Audio - Richard Broome, La Trobe University
• Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment - Free iTunes Audio - Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz
• Big History - Free Online Video - David Christian, Macquarie University
• China: Traditions and Transformations - Free Course in Multiple Formats - Peter K. Bol & William Kirby, Harvard
• CIA in the Third World - Free Online Video - Thomas O'Brien, University of Houston
• Colonial and Revolutionary America - Free iTunes Audio - Jack Rakove, Stanford
• Constitutional Convention - Free iTunes Video - University of Oklahoma - Kevin Butterfield, Paul Gilje
• Coexistence in Medieval Spain: Jews, Christians, and Muslims - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - UC Boulder
• Economic History of the Soviet Union - Free Online Video - Guinevere Liberty Nell, Marginal Revolution U.
• Early Imperial Russia - Free iTunes Audio - Adrian Jones, La Trobe University, Australia
• 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
• Emperors of Rome - Free iTunes Audio - Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University, Australia
• Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Video - Course Materials - Frank Snowden, Yale
• Ethnic Relations in the US - Free iTunes Audio - Arizona State
• Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 - Free Online 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 the Renaissance to the Present - Free Online Video - 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
• Freedom 101: Introduction to American Constitutional History - Free iTunes iOS course - U. of Oklahoma
• 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 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 - 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 Online 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  - Free Online Course - Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
• History of the United States Since 1877 - Free iTunes Video - Dominic Capeci, Missouri State
• 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 Online Audio - Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
• Introduction to African American Studies - Real Player Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
• Introduction to Ancient Egypt and Its Civilization - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - University of Pennsylvania
• Introduction to Ancient Greek History - Free Online Course - Donald Kagan, Yale
• Introduction to American Studies - Free Online Video - Michael Cohen, UC Berkeley
• Ireland in Rebellion (1782-1916) - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video -  More Info - Trinity College Dublin
• Latin American History through the Novel - Free Online Video - Lois Zamora, University of Houston
• 21 Hours of Lectures by Howard Zinn - Spotify - Boston University
• Magic in the Middle Ages - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - University of Barcelona
• Making History - Free iTunes Audio - Ingrid Sykes, La Trobe University - Australia
• Medieval British History - Free Online Video - David Thornton, Bilkent University (Turkey)
• 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
• Pirates, Smugglers, and the Modern World - Free Online Video - Thomas O'Brien, University of Houston
• 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
• Russian History: from Lenin to Putin - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - UC Santa Cruz
• 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 - Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
• The Americas: Identity, Culture, and Power - Free Online Video - Cesar Seveso, University of Houston
• The Ancient Mediterranean World - Free Online Audio - Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
• The Ancient Greeks - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Wesleyan University
• The Birth of the Modern: Europe and its Others - Free iTunes Audio - Andrew Barnes, Arizona State
• The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Sapienza University of Rome
• The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - The Universiteit Leiden
• The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - Free Online Course - David Blight, Yale
• The Crusades - Free Online Video - Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
• The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 - Free Online Video - Paul H. Freedman, Yale
• The French Revolution - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - University of Melbourne
• The Great War and Modern Philosophy - Free Online Video - Nicolas de Warren, KU Leuven University
• The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Tel Aviv University
• The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Tel Aviv University
• The Flowering of the Middle Ages - Free Online Video - Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
• The History of Public Health - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio & Course Materials - Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins
• The Kennedy Half Century - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Free iTunes Video - Larry Sabato, University of Virginia
• The Modern World: Global History Since 1760 - Free iTunesU iOS Course - Philip Zelikow, UVA
• The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910 - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - University of Virginia
• The Modern World, Part Two: Global History since 1910 - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - University of Virginia
• The Normans - Free Online Video - Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
• The Ottoman Empire - Free iTunes Video - Adrian Jones, La Trobe University - Australia
• The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 - Free Online Audio - James Vernon, UC Berkeley
• The Reformation - Free iTunes Audio - Westminster Theological Seminary
• The Roman World - Free iTunes Video - Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University
• The Story of Freedom in America - Free iTunes Video - Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma
• The Vietnam War - Free Online Video - Robert Buzzanco, University of Houston
• The Vikings - Free Online Video - Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
• US History: from Civil War to Present - Free Online Audio - Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley
• 20th Century United States History - Free Online Video - Tyrone Tillery, University of Houston
• The Western Tradition (Video) - Free Online Video - Course Outline - Eugen Weber, UCLA
• War, Globalization, and Terror - Free Online Video - Robert Buzzanco, University of Houston
• World Revolutions - Free Online Video - Thomas O'Brien, University of Houston
• World Civilization to 1500 - Free Online Video - Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
• World Civilization Since 1500 - Free Online Video - Thomas O'Brien, University of Houston
• World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution - Free Online Video & Syllabus - Free iTunes Video - Gregory Clark, UC Davis
• World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II - Free Online Course - Charles S. Maier, Harvard

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