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- 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) – Howard Bloch, 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 – Free Online Video – Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst
- Ancient Greece: City and Society – Free Audio – Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
- Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War – Free Audio – Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
- Ancient Greek History – Free Online Course – Donald Kagan, Yale
- Ancient Israel – Free Online Video + Course Info – Daniel Fleming, NYU
- Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations – Free Online Video & Course Info – John Dower, MIT
- Australian Aboriginal History – Free 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
- Chinese Politics – Free Online Video – Rory Truex, Princeton
- Church History – Free iTunes Audio – Westminster Theological Seminary
- CIA in the Third World – Free Online Video – Thomas O’Brien, University of Houston
- Colonial and Revolutionary America – Free iTunes Audio – Jack Rakove, Stanford
- Coexistence in Medieval Spain: Jews, Christians, and Muslims – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Boulder
- Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Colorado
- Economic History of the Soviet Union – Free Online Video – Guinevere Liberty Nell, Marginal Revolution U.
- Early Modern England: Politics, Religion & Society under the Tudors and Stuarts – Free Online Video – Course Materials – Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
- Emperors of Rome – Free Audio – Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University, Australia
- Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 – Free Online Course – Frank Snowden, Yale
- European Civilization, 1648-1945 – Free Online 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 – Course Materials – John Merriman, Yale
- Hannibal – Free Online Audio – Patrick Hunt, Stanford
- Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975-1983) – Free Online Audio – Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
- Harvey Goldberg Lectures. Marxism and History: The 1970s Bootleg Student Tapes – Free Audio – Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
- Historical Jesus – Free iTunes Audio – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
- History of Information – Free Online Video – Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
- History of Iran to the Safavid Period – Free 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 – Internet Archive – 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 – Internet Archive – Dominic Capeci, Missouri State
- History of the World to 1500 CE – Free Online Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- History of the World Since 1500 CE – Free Online Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 – Free Online Audio – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
- 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 – 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
- Medieval Europe (500-1500) – Free Online Video – David E. Thornton, Bilkent University
- Medieval British History – Free Online Video – David Thornton, Bilkent University (Turkey)
- 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
- Russian History: From Lenin to Putin – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – UC Santa Cruz
- Science, Magic and Religion – 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 Book of Kells: Exploring an Irish Medieval Masterpiece – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Trinity College Dublin
- 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 Kennedy Half Century – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Larry Sabato, University of Virginia
- The Making of Modern Ukraine – Free Online Video – Timothy Snyder, Yale
- 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 Audio – Adrian Jones, La Trobe University – Australia
- The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – Free Online Audio – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
- The Roman World – Free Audio – Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University
- 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 – 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
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