Free Education #3.1
History Courses
- A Tale of Three Super Powers – Free iTunes Video – Joseph Huges, Missouri State
- African American History: Emancipation to the Present – Free Online Video - Course Materials - Jonathan Holloway, Yale
- African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Clay Carson, Stanford
- American Economic History (Syllabus) - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
- American Economic History (Syllabus) – Free Online Video - Gerald Friedman, UMass-Amherst
- Ancient Greece: City and Society - Free iTunes Audio - Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
- Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War – Free iTunes Audio - Dr Gillian Shepherd, La Trobe University, Australia
- Ancient Greek History - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Audio - Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - Donald Kagan, Yale
- Ancient Israel - Free Online Video & Resources - Free Online Video - Daniel Fleming, NYU
- Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations – Free Online Video & Course Info - John Dower, MIT
- Australian Aboriginal History – Free iTunes Audio – Richard Broome, La Trobe University
- Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment – Free iTunes Audio - Bruce Thompson, Stanford/UC Santa Cruz
- China: Traditions and Transformations – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Peter K. Bol & William Kirby, Harvard
- Colonial and Revolutionary America – Free iTunes Audio - Jack Rakove, Stanford
- Constitutional Convention – Free iTunes Video – University of Oklahoma – Kevin Butterfield, Paul Gilje
- Economic History of the Soviet Union - Free Online Video - Guinevere Liberty Nell, Marginal Revolution U.
- Early Imperial Russia – Free iTunes Audio – Adrian Jones, La Trobe University, Australia
- Early Modern England: Politics, Religion & Society under the Tudors and Stuarts – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - Keith E. Wrightson, Yale
- Early Modern Germany - Free iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
- Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Video - Course Materials - Frank Snowden, Yale
- Ethnic Relations in the US – Free iTunes Audio – Arizona State
- Europe in the 19th Century – Free iTunes Audio – David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
- Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 – Free iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
- European Civilization, 1648-1945 - Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - John Merriman, Yale
- European Civilization from Renaissance to Present – Free iTunes Audio - Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley
- European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video – Free Online Audio - 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 – Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - John Merriman, Yale
- Freedom 101: Introduction to American Constitutional History – Free iTunes iOS course – U. of Oklahoma
- Hannibal – Free iTunes Audio - Patrick Hunt, Stanford
- Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975-1983) – Free Online Audio - Harvey Goldberg, University of Wisconsin
- Historical Jesus – Free iTunes Audio – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
- History of Anthropological Thought – Free iTunes Audio - Rosemary Joyce, UC Berkeley
- History and Practice of Human Rights – Free Online Video – Free Video 2 - Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Thomas Laqueur
- History of Information – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video 2 - Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
- History of Iran to the Safavid Period – Free iTunes Audio - Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan - Free iTunes 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 – Free iTunes Audio - Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- History of New York City: A Social History (Syllabus) - Free Online Video & Course Info - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
- History of the United States Since 1945 – Free iTunes Audio - Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
- History of the United States Since 1877 – Free iTunes Video - Dominic Capeci, Missouri State
- History of the World to 1500 CE – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- History of the World Since 1500 CE – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video – Richard Bulliet, Columbia University
- Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
- International and Global History Since 1945 – Free iTunes Audio - Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to African American Studies – Real Player Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
- Introduction to Ancient Greek History - Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - Donald Kagan, Yale
- Introduction to American Studies – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio – Michael Cohen, UC Berkeley
- Maker of the Modern World? Imperial Britain, 1714 to the Present (Syllabus) – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – James Vernon, UC Berkeley
- Making History – Free iTunes Audio – Ingrid Sykes, La Trobe University – Australia
- Medicine and Public Health in American History – Free Online Audio - Chris Hamlin, Notre Dame
- Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present - Free Online Video – Lynn Hunt, UCLA
- Modern Jewish History – Free Online Audio - George Mosse, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Rethinking the Black Liberation Movement - Free Online Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
- Rethinking Theory in Black Studies - Free Online Video - Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois
- Science, Magic and Religion - Free iTunes Video - 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 - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials- Joanne B. Freeman, Yale
- The Ancient Mediterranean World – Free Online Audio - Isabelle Pafford, UC Berkeley
- The Birth of the Modern: Europe and its Others – Free iTunes Audio – Andrew Barnes, Arizona State
- The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 - Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - David Blight, Yale
- The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video & Audio - Course Materials - Paul H. Freedman, Yale
- The History of Public Health – Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio & Course Materials - Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins
- The Kennedy Half Century – Free iTunes Video – Larry Sabato, University of Virginia
- The Modern World: Global History Since 1760 – Free iTunesU iOS Course – Philip Zelikow, UVA
- The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Video – Free Online Video - James Vernon, UC Berkeley
- The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – Free iTunes Audio – Margaret Anderson, UC Berkeley
- The Roman World - Free iTunes Video - Rhiannon Evans, La Trobe University
- The Story of Freedom in America - Free iTunes Video – Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma
- The United States and the World Since 1945 - Free iTunes Audio – Daniel Sargent, UC Berkeley
- U.S. History from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World War II – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
- US History: from Civil War to Present - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley
- The Western Tradition (Video) - Free Online Video - Course Outline – Eugen Weber, UCLA
- War and Peace: International Relations since 1914 – Free iTunes Audio - David Wetzel, UC Berkeley
- World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Charles S. Maier, Harvard
Bookmark our collection of free online courses in History.
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Law Courses
- Aims and Limits of the Criminal Law - Free iTunes Audio - Tamara Lave, UC Berkeley
- Climate Change: Law and Policy – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video – Cymie Payne, Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley
- Environmental Justice and Human Rights in the Aftermath of Katrina – Free Online Audio – Cynthia Toms Smedley, Notre Dame
- Environmental Law and Policy - Free Online Video – Bob Infelise, UC Berkeley
- Environmental Politics and Law - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - John P. Wargo, Yale
- Freedom of Speech and the Press – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – William Turner, UC Berkeley
- International Environmental Law – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Cymie Payne, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Copyright Law – Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Free Online Video & Course Info - Keith Winstein, MIT
- Labor Law and Employment Discrimination – Free Online Video – Greggory Groves, Missouri State
- Law and Economics I - Free iTunes Audio – Robert Cooter, UC Berkeley
- Law and Justice – Free iTunesU iOS App – Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma
- Law and Legal Thought in the 21st Century – Free Online Video - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
- Media Law & Ethics – Free iTunes iOS App - Nicole Kraft, Ohio State
- Philosophy of Law (Syllabus) - Free iTunes Audio - C. Surprenant, University of New Orleans
- Politics and Media Freedom – Free Online Video - Richard Barbrook, University of Westminster
- Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Today - Free Online Video - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
- Renewable Energy & Alternative Fuels (Law & Policy) – Free Online Video – Steven Weissman, UC Berkeley
- Self, Serenity, and Vulnerability – Free Online Video - Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard
- Theories of Law and Society – Free Online Audio - Free iTunes Audio - David Lieberman, UC Berkeley
- Video Game Law – Free Online Video - Jon Festinger, University of British Columbia/Centre for Digital Media
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Literature Courses
- American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil War - Free Online Video & Course Info - Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video - Cyrus Patell, NYU
- American Passages: A Literary Survey – Free Online Video - Multiple profs, Annenberg Learner
- Approaching Shakespeare – Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Emma Smith, Oxford
- British and American Poetry: 1900 to the Present - Free iTunes Audio – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
- Cervantes’ Don Quixote - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - Roberto González Echevarría, Yale
- Contemporary Literature – Free Online Video – Free Video Download - Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, IIT Madras
- Creative Reading – Free Online Audio - William S. Burroughs, Naropa University
- Creative Writing: A Master Class – Free iTunes Video – Alison Ersheid
- Cultural Studies – Free Online Video – Free Video Download - Liza Das, IIT Guwahati
- Dante in Translation - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Audio - Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale
- Darwin and Design – Free Online Video & Course Info - James Paradis, MIT
- D.H. Lawrence – Free Online Video & Audio - Catherine Brown, Oxford
- Epics of Rome - Free iTunes Video - Rhiannon Evans, LaTrobe University-Australia
- Existentialism in Literature & Film - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Expansive Poetics – Free Online Audio - Allen Ginsberg, Naropa University
- Faeirie and Fantasy – Free Online Video & Audio - Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Fiction for Young Adults – Free iTunes Audio - David Beagley, La Trobe University – Austrialia
- From Gods and Back - Free Online Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Genres in Children’s Literature – Free iTunes Audio - David Beagley, La Trobe University – Austrialia
- George Eliot – Free Online Audio - Catherine Brown, Oxford
- Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Audio - Course Materials - Wai Chee Dimock, Yale
- History of Children’s Literature – Free iTunes Audio – David Beagley, La Trobe University – Austrialia
- Holocaust in Film and Literature – Free Online Video – Todd Presner, UCLA
- History of Poetry – Free Online Audio – Allen Ginsberg, Naropa
- Introduction to Literature and the Environment – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video – Ken Hiltner, Princeton
- Introduction to Poetry – Free iTunes Video – Lanette Cadle, Missouri State
- Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture – Free iTunes Audio – John Wallace, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Theory of Literature – Free Online Video - Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - Paul H. Fry, Yale
- Invitation to World Literature – Free Online Video - David Damrosch, Harvard
- Jack Kerouac – Free Online Audio Part 1 and Part 2 – Allen Ginsberg, Naropa University
- La Préparation du roman, in French (1978-80) – Free Online Audio – Roland Barthes, Collège de France
- Literature and Form - Free Online Video & Audio - Free iTunes Video – Free iTunes Audio – Catherine Brown, Oxford
- Literature and Psychoanalysis – Free Online Audio - John Fletcher, University of Warwick
- Literature in English: Late-17th to Mid-19th Century – Free iTunes Audio - Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
- Milton – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio - Free iTunes Video - Course Materials - John Rogers, Yale
- Lord of the Rings I: The Road Goes Ever On - Free iTunes Video & Audio - Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Lord of the Rings II: The Two Towers - Free Tunes Video & Audio - Free Online Video & Audio - Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Lord of the Rings III: Return of the King - Free iTunes Video & Audio - Free Online Video & Audio - Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Modern Poetry - Free Online Video - Course Materials - Langdon Hammer, Yale
- Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre – Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Multiple profs, Oxford
- Old English in Context - Free Online Audio - Stuart Lee, Oxford University
- Oscar Wilde - Free Online Audio - Sos Eltis, Oxford
- Post Colonial Literature for Children – Free iTunes Audio – David Beagley, La Trobe University – Austrialia
- Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to Wordsworth – Free Online Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- Science Fiction and Politics - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Courtney Brown, Emory University
- Shakespeare - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
- Shakespeare After All: The Later Plays – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Marjorie Garber, Harvard
- Shakespeare’s Principal Plays - Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio - Ralph Williams, University of Michigan
- Spenser and Milton – Free Online Audio - William Flesch, Brandeis
- Survey of American Literature II – Free iTunes Video - Clark Closser, Missouri State
- Survey of Shakespeare’s Plays - Free Online Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- The American Novel Since 1945 – Free Online Video – Free iTunes Audio – Free iTunes Video - Download Course – Amy Hungerford, Yale
- The Art of Living – Free Online Video (More info) – Team taught, Stanford
- The Epic - Free iTunes Audio - UC Berkeley - Maura Bridget Nolan & Charles Altieri
- The Heroic Quest – Free iTunes Video – Joseph Hughes, Missouri State
- The Hobbit – Free iTunes Video - Free Online Audio - More – Corey Olsen, Washington College
- The Literature of Crisis – Free iTunes Audio - Marsh McCall & Martin Evans, Stanford
- The Silmarillion Seminar – Free Online Video & Audio - Corey Olsen, Washington College
- The Tempest – Free Online Audio – Allen Ginsberg, Naropa University
- The Western Canon: From Homer to Milton – Free Online Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- This Craft of Verse: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures – Free Online Audio – Jorge Luis Borges, Harvard
- Undergraduate Tolkien Survey – Free Online Video & Audio - Corey Olsen, Washington College
- Virgil's Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic – Free iTunes Audio - Susanna Braund, Stanford
- Voices & Visions: The Lives & Works of 13 American Poets – Free Online Video - Annenberg Media
- Writing Sources – Free Online Audio - William S. Burroughs, Naropa University