Free Online History Courses

• A Tale of Three Super Powers – Free iTunes Video – Joseph Huges, Missouri State
• 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 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 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
• 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
• Colonial and Revolutionary America – Free iTunes Audio – Jack Rakove, Stanford
• Constitutional Convention – Free iTunes Video – University of Oklahoma – Kevin Butterfield, Paul Gilje
• 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
• 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
• Ethnic Relations in the US – Free iTunes Audio – Arizona State
• Europe in the 19th Century – Free iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
• Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 – Free Online Audio – 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 – 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 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, Missouri State
• 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 – Free Online 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
• Making History – Free iTunes Audio – Ingrid Sykes, La Trobe University – Australia
• 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 Birth of the Modern: Europe and its Others – Free iTunes Audio – Andrew Barnes, Arizona State
• 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 Modern World: Global History Since 1760 – Free iTunesU iOS Course – Philip Zelikow, UVA
• The Ottoman Empire – Free iTunes Video – Adrian Jones, La Trobe University – Australia
• The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Video – Free Online Video – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
• The Reformation – Free iTunes Audio - Westminster Theological Seminary
• The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – Free iTunes Audio – Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
• 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 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 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 Course in Multiple Formats – Charles S. Maier, Harvard

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