The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877
Pulitzer Prize historian David Blight examines the causes, military turning points, emancipation, constitutional remaking, and contested memory of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
History & Humanities
Ancient and modern history, classical civilizations, history of science, literature, and political thought.
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Essential History courses
Complete university lecture courses in history & humanities.
Introduction to Ancient Greek History
Donald Kagan traces Greek civilization from the Bronze Age collapse and rise of the polis through Athenian democracy, the Persian Wars, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian War.
Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)
Historical, literary, and archaeological study of the Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Near Eastern context: Mesopotamian myth, covenant law, prophecy, wisdom literature, and canon formation.
The American Revolution
Joanne Freeman reconstructs the political, social, and ideological upheaval of British North America from imperial crisis and street protest through independence, war, and constitutional founding.
Roman Architecture
Concrete vaulting, urban forums, Pompeii, imperial palaces, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Hadrian's Villa, and architectural engineering across the Roman provinces.
Introduction to Theory of Literature
Surveys modern literary theory from Russian formalism, hermeneutics, semiotics, structuralism, and deconstruction to psychoanalysis, New Historicism, and postcolonial criticism.
History Double Feature
Two complementary history talks paired around a central intellectual tension.
Double Feature2 talks · 130m total
Collapse & Foundation in the Ancient Mediterranean
How interconnected Bronze Age kingdoms unraveled within a generation—paired with how early Rome constructed its own civic origin myths out of crisis.
Standalone History talks
97Self-contained lectures, Nobel addresses, and research colloquia you can watch in one sitting.
The Character of Physical Law, Lecture 1: The Law of Gravitation
Archival 1964 Cornell Messenger Lecture: Feynman traces Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Galileo, and Newton to show how a compact mathematical rule governs everything from falling apples to globular clusters.
Oligarchs and Their Discontents
Explore the historical tensions between oligarchic power and popular discontent, drawing insights from ancient Roman and Athenian political structures. Professor Melissa Lane examines models of elite accommodation versus irredentist resistance.
From Plato to Plateau: Natural Tilings and Soft Cells
An advanced lecture investigating the mathematical principles behind natural tilings and soft cellular structures, bridging classical geometry with modern applied mathematics and biological physics.
The Conversions of Christianity: A World Full of Gods
Establishing the ancient Mediterranean religious and cosmic frameworks, providing the essential intellectual backdrop for understanding the genesis and evolution of early Christianities.
When Does Christianity Become Christianity? The Gifford Lectures - Lecture Five
In her fifth Gifford Lecture, Professor Paula Fredriksen investigates the critical inflection points at which early gospel traditions evolved into distinct Christian movements, addressing ethnicity, divinity, and developing theological distinctions.
Bridging Affine Vertex Algebras and Affine Springer Fibers
An advanced exposition on the current research program connecting affine Springer theory with representations of simple affine vertex algebras, detailing explicit correspondences and conjectures.
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Bronze Age Collapse, Ancient Near East & Imperial Rome
Cuneiform philology, Mediterranean trade networks, Hebrew scripture, and Roman urbanism
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Polis, Empire & Constitutional Revolutions
Classical Greek citizenship, Roman transformation, and early modern statecraft
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