The Great Courses

Far from being a time of darkness, the Middle Ages was an essential period in the grand narrative of Western history. Discover what it was like to actually live in this extraordinary era....

Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....

These 36 lectures bring you the answers that the latest scientific and archaeological research and theorizing suggest about human origins....

The scientific theories that were first discovered and made public in the years 1700-1900 are some of the most pivotal in history....

Explore these 12 entertaining lectures that tell the stories of the great pharaohs and the daily realities of Egyptian life....

In these 36 engaging lectures, Professor Muller takes you deep inside the perspectives on capitalism, this most important and pervasive force....

Modern psychologists are involved in far more than helping people cope with their inner demons....

In this series of 24 fascinating lectures you'll investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution and other factors....

Even after deciphering its hieroglyphs, and marveling at its scarabs, mummies, obelisks, and sphinxes, Egyptian civilization remains one of history's most mysterious....

These 36 eye-opening lectures deliver a comprehensive political and historical overview of one of the most fascinating and complex countries in world history....

While American history spans not much more than two centuries, it is filled with a wealth of leaders, wars, movements, inventions, and ideas....

Methodical and meticulous in its approach, these lectures will help you understand why the West's transition from the classical to the early modern was a fluid, ongoing process....

In these 12 lectures, Professor Esposito guides you through the facts and myths surrounding Islam and its more than 1.2 billion adherents....

Classical physics is about how things move, why they move, and how they work. And if that sounds complicated to you, Professor Pollock hopes you will think again....

In the course of these 36 stimulating lectures, you will investigate a wide range of philosophical approaches to science....

These 24 provocative lectures introduce you to the Late Middle Age's major events, personalities, and developments....

How do the histories of China and Japan, or Russia, India, and the remote territories of Sub-Saharan Africa fit in with commonly known accounts of Western traditions?....

Clinical sport psychologist Eddie O'Connor, PhD, shares the best ways for you to reach your personal peak based on the latest scientific research....

Even if you have listened to many of these illustrative pieces throughout your life you will never hear them the same way again after experiencing these lectures....

These lectures are an invaluable resource and a helpful introduction to the grandest adventure story in Western literature....