The Great Courses

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

Follow the origin of new ways of thinking-ideas we today take for granted but are startlingly recent-about the individual and society....

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 24 lectures trace a journey from Scandinavia across central Europe to the farthest reaches of the Byzantine and Islamic empires, providing insight to this one-lost era....

This series of 24 vibrant and accessible lectures sheds light on what's going on when we learn and dispels common myths about the subject....

Step back to Christianity's first three centuries to see how it transitioned from the religion of Jesus to a religion about Jesus....

We’ve been celebrating Earth Day for 50 years now, but even the most ardent activists of today would have a hard time picturing the intensity and excitement that the first Earth Day in 1970 brought....

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....

Explopre a course that requires no prior background in philosophy and avoids the often-intimidating language in which serious philosophy can be expressed....

In a series of 24 lectures, you'll learn how the Greek-speaking empire of Byzantium, or East Rome, occupied a crucial place in both time and space....

These compelling lectures draw on the lives of medicine's greatest contributors to tell the human story behind the development of Western scientific medicine....

But is it possible that the understanding of the book of Genesis we've all grown up with isn't as complete as we'd like to believe?....

Professor Oden's lectures approach religious belief and ritual as possible answers to the most difficult and enduring questions....

No understanding of human life, individual or collective, could be complete without factoring in the role and contribution of these history-shaping teachers....

The Aeneid is the great national epic of ancient Rome, and one of the most important works of literature ever written....

This course is an extremely useful addition to the shelves of anyone who is fascinated by the history of ancient Christianity and its evolution into the dominant religion it is today....

Unlike earlier great wars, the Peloponnesian War was not a conflict between kings, but between citizens from different city-states....

These 36 in-depth lectures explore the fundamentals of good nutrition and offer a practical guide for applying these fundamentals to your lifestyle....

Rodriguez uses his keen economist's eye to report ideas, trends, and possible outcomes you can expect to see as China and India....

These 24 enlightening lectures offer you the chance to experience the world's religions from all angles – historical, theological, and cultural....