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 Struggle – YouTube– iTunes – Clay Carson, Stanford
  • American Economic History – iTunes – J. Bradford Delong, UC Berkeley
  • Ancient Greek History - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video- Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
  • Ancient Israel - YouTube – 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 - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - YouTube- Web Site – Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
  • 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 – 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.
  • Historical Jesus – iTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
  • History of Anthropological Thought – iTunes – Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley
  • History of Information – YouTube – 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 the Modern Middle East – iTunes – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
  • History of New York City: A Social History - iTunes – 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
  • Introduction to Greek History - YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
  • 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
  • Science, Magic and Religion - iTunes - YouTube – Courtenay Raiai, UCLA
  • The American Founders and Their World – iTunes – Jack Rakove, Gordon Wood, etc. Stanford
  • The American Revolution – iTunes Video - iTunes Audio – YouTube- Web Site – Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - YouTube –iTunes Audio – iTunes Video - Download Course – David Blight, Yale
  • The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – iTunes – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
  • The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – iTunes – Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
  • The United States and the World Since 1945 - iTunes Audio – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
  • The Western Tradition (Video) – Videos – 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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