Free Online Lectures and Courses for Humanities
86 Courses
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Sustainable Living: Environment II
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Technological Tools for School Reform
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Technologies for Creative Learning
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Ten Images of Hell in the Twentieth Century
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The American Novel Since 1945
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The American Novel Since 1945
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Richard Wright, Black Boy
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Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
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Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (cont)
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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Nabokov and Modernism
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont)
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Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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Jack Kerouac, On the Road (cont)
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J D Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
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Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
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Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
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Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
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Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont)
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Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
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Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont)
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Philip Roth, The Human Stain
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Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont- 2)
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Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont -3)
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Edward P Jones, The Known World
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Edward P Jones, The Known World (cont)
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont)
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Review for Final Exam
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The American Revolution
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Introduction: Freeman's Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution
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Being a British Colonist
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Being a British American
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"Ever at Variance and Foolishly Jealous": Intercolonial Relations
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Outraged Colonials: The Stamp Act Crisis
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Resistance or Rebellion? (Or, What the Heck is Happening in Boston?)
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Being a Revolutionary
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The Logic of Resistance
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Who Were the Loyalists?
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Common Sense
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Independence
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Civil War
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Organizing a War
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Heroes and Villains
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Citizens and Choices: Experiencing the Revolution in New Haven
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The Importance of George Washington
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The Logic of a Campaign (or, How in the World Did We Win?)
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Fighting the Revolution: The Big Picture
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War and Society
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Confederation
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A Union Without Power
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The Road to the Constitutional Convention
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Creating a Constitution
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Creating a Nation
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Being an American: The Legacy of the Revolution
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The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
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Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?
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Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
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A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology
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A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology, and the Abolition Movement
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Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality
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Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
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"A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party
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Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union
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John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
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The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
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Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
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"And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies
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Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency
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Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
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Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy
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Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
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Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War
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"War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost
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To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
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Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic
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Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction
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Constitutional Crisis and the Impeachment of a President
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Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor
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Retreat from Reconstruction: the Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"
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The End of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the Compromise of 1877
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Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory
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Legacies of the Civil War
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The Crusades (HIST 4332)
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 1A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 1B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 2A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 2B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 3A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 3B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 4A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 4B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 5A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 5B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 6A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 6B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 7A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 7B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 8A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 8B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 9A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 9B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 10A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 10B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 11A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 11B
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 12A
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HIST 4332 - The Crusades: 12B
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000
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Course Introduction: Rome's Greatness and First Crises
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The Crisis of the Third Century and the Diocletianic Reforms
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Constantine and the Early Church
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The Christian Roman Empire
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Transformation of the Roman Empire
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Barbarian Kingdoms
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Survival in the East
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The Reign of Justinian
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Clovis and the Franks
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Frankish Society
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Britain and Ireland
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Monasticism
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Mohammed and the Arab Conquests
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Islamic Conquests and Civil War
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: The Splendor of the Abbasid Period
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: The Crucial Seventh Century
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: The Splendor of Byzantium
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Charlemagne
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Intellectuals and the Court of Charlemagne
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Crisis of the Carolingians
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Vikings / The European Prospect, 1000
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The Hebrew Scriptures in Judaism and Christianity
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Welcome to the Online Course
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Introduction to the Course
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What is the Bible
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What is Judaism?
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What is Christianity?
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Jewish Bible Interpretation in Antiquity
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Christian Bible Interpretation in Antiquity
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The Parting of the Ways
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Justin Martyr and Early Christianity
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Circumcision- The Jewish Understanding
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Circumcision: The Christian Understanding
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The Food Laws- The Jewish View
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The Food Laws- The Christian View
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The Sabbath
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From Shabbat to Sunday
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Pesah / Passover
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The Seder
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From Pesah to Pascha
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Melito of Sardis and the Christian Passover
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The One God, Torah, and Logos
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The One God who is Two
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Messiah- The Restoration of Davidic King
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Christ as King and Messaih
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Atonement through Sacrifice and its Surrogates
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Atonement through the Sacrifice of Christ
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Israel, the People of God
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Who is the True Israel
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