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: Modern Freedom StruggleYouTubeiTunes – Clay Carson, Stanford
  • American Economic HistoryiTunesFeedStream – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • American Environmental and Cultural HistoryiTunesFeed – Carolyn Merchant, UC Berkeley
  • Colonial and Revolutionary AmericaiTunesU – Jack Rakove, Stanford
  • European Civilization, 1648-1945 - iTunesYouTubeDownload Course – John Merriman, Yale
  • European Civilization from Renaissance to PresentiTunesFeed – Thomas Lacquer/Margret Anderson, UC Berkeley
  • European Civilization from Renaissance to PresentFeedStream – Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley
  • France Since 1871YouTubeiTunesDownload Course – John Merriman, Yale
  • HannibaliTunes – Patrick Hunt, Stanford.
  • Historical JesusiTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
  • History of the International SystemiTunes – James Sheehan, Stanford University
  • Introduction to Greek History YouTubeiTunesDownload Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
  • Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present - YouTube – Lynn Hunt, UCLA
  • Modern Physics: From the Atom to Big ScienceiTunesFeedStream – Cathryn Carson, UC Berkeley
  • Science, Magic and Religion - YouTube – Courtenay Raiai, UCLA
  • Spectacle Entertainments of Ancient RomeFeedMP3s – Paolo Monella, UCLA
  • The American Founders and Their WorldiTunes – Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
  • The Ancient Mediterranean WorldiTunesFeed - MP3s – Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - YouTubeiTunesDownload Course – David Blight, Yale
  • The Rise and Fall of the Second ReichiTunesFeedMP3s – Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
  • The Roman EmpireiTunesFeedMP3s – Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
  • The Western Tradition (Video)VideosCourse Outline – Eugen Weber, UCLA
  • US History: Civil War to PresentiTunesFeed- Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley

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

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