History: Free Courses




Get free History courses 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.

  • African American History: From Emancipation to the Present– YouTube – iTunes – Web Site – Jonathan Holloway, Yale
  • African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle – YouTube– iTunes – Clay Carson, Stanford
  • American Economic History – iTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • Ancient Greek History - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes VideoDownload Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
  • Ancient Israel - YouTube – Web – Daniel Fleming, NYU
  • Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment – iTunes – Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz
  • China: Traditions and Transformations – Multiple Formats – Peter K. Bol & William Kirby, Harvard
  • Colonial and Revolutionary America – iTunesU – Jack Rakove, Stanford
  • Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts – YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes AudioWeb Site – Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
  • Early Modern Germany iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
  • Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 iTunes Video –  iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Frank Snowden, Yale
  • Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 –iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
  • European Civilization, 1648-1945 - YouTube – iTunes Audio –iTunes Video - Download Course – John Merriman, Yale
  • European Civilization from Renaissance to Present – iTunes – Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley
  • European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present -YouTube - iTunes Video – Web –  Thomas Lacquer, UC Berkeley
  • European Cultural History, 1500-1815 MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
  • European Cultural History, 1660-1870 MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
  • European Cultural History, 1880-1920 MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin- Madison
  • France Since 1871 – YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – John Merriman, Yale
  • Hannibal – iTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford
  • Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975-1983) – Web Site - Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
  • Historical Jesus – iTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
  • History of Anthropological Thought – iTunes – Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley
  • History and Practice of Human Rights – YouTube – iTunes Video –iTunes Audio – Web – Thomas Laqueur
  • History of Information – YouTube – iTunes Video – Web – Professors Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
  • History of Iran to the Safavid Period – iTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
  • History of the International System – iTunes – James Sheehan, Stanford University
  • History of MIT – Web - David Mindell and Merritt Roe Smith, MIT
  • History of the Modern Middle East – iTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
  • History of New York City: A Social History iTunes Video –YouTube – Web Site – Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
  • History of the United States Since 1945 – iTunes – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
  • History of the World to 1500 CE – YouTube – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
  • Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 iTunes – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
  • International and Global History Since 1945 – iTunes – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to African American Studies – Real Player Video- Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
  • Introduction to Ancient Greek History - YouTube – iTunes –Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
  • Introduction to American Studies – YouTube – iTunes Video -iTunes Audio – Michael Cohen, UC Berkeley
  • Medicine and Public Health in American History – Web Audio- Chris Hamlin, Notre Dame
  • Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present YouTube – Lynn Hunt, UCLA
  • Modern Jewish History – MP3s – George Mosse, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Rethinking the Black Liberation Movement - Web Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
  • Rethinking Theory in Black Studies Web Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
  • Science, Magic and Religion iTunes - YouTube – Courtenay Raia, UCLA
  • The American Founders and Their World – iTunes – Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
  • The American Revolution – YouTube - iTunes Video iTunes AudioWeb Site – Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
  • The Ancient Mediterranean World – Web – Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 YouTube –iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - Download Course – David Blight, Yale
  • The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 - YouTube - iTunes - Web Site – Paul H. Freedman, Yale
  • The History of Public Health – iTunesU – Web – Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins
  • The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – iTunes - YouTube– Web – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
  • The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – iTunes Audio – Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
  • The Roman World - iTunes Video - Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University
  • The Story of Freedom in America - iTunes Video – Rufus Frears, University of Oklahoma
  • The United States and the World Since 1945 iTunes Audio – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
  • U.S. History from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World War II – YouTube – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Web – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
  • US History: from Civil War to Present by Jennifer Burns – Web– Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley
  • The Western Tradition (Video) – YouTube - Web site - Course Outline – Eugen Weber, UCLA
  • War and Peace: International Relations since 1914 – iTunes – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
  • World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II –Multiple Formats – Charles S. Maier, Harvard

For a full lineup of online courses, please visit our complete collection of Free Courses.

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