Great Courses

A curated collection of full-length university lecture series, high-production open courses, and audiovisual deep dives in History that offer exceptional historiographical insight and pedagogical depth beyond core introductory surveys.

Ancient, Classical & Medieval Worlds

• Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses / Yale University / Donald Kagan)
• Roman Architecture (Open Yale Courses / Yale University / Diana E. E. Kleiner)
• The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000 (Open Yale Courses / Yale University / Paul Freedman)
• Age of Cathedrals (Coursera / Yale University / R. Howard Bloch)
• Coexistence in Medieval Spain: Jews, Christians, and Muslims (Coursera / University of Colorado Boulder / Brian A. Catlos & Roger L. Martínez-Dávila)
• The Book of Kells: Exploring an Irish Medieval Masterpiece (FutureLearn / Trinity College Dublin / Fintan Cullen & Rachel Moss)

Early Modern & Modern European History

• Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (Open Yale Courses / Yale University / Keith E. Wrightson)
• European Civilization, 1648–1945 (Open Yale Courses / Yale University / John Merriman)
• France Since 1871 (Open Yale Courses / Yale University / John Merriman)
• The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World (Coursera / Tel Aviv University & Yad Vashem / Havi Dreifuss & Na'ama Shik)

African American, Atlantic & American History

• The American Revolution (Open Yale Courses / Yale University / Joanne B. Freeman)
• The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877 (Open Yale Courses / Yale University / David W. Blight)
• African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (Open Yale Courses / Yale University / Jonathan Holloway)
• The Age of Jefferson (Coursera / University of Virginia / Peter Onuf)

Global, Asian & Middle Eastern Civilizations

• China's Political and Intellectual Foundations: From Sage Kings to Confucius (Harvard Online / Harvard University / Peter K. Bol & William C. Kirby)
• The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World (Coursera / Universiteit Leiden / Petra Sijpesteijn)
• The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part I (Coursera / Tel Aviv University / Asher Susser)
• The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part II (Coursera / Tel Aviv University / Asher Susser)

Thematic, Intellectual & Epidemiological Histories

• Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (Open Yale Courses / Yale University / Frank M. Snowden)
• Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century (MIT OpenCourseWare / David Kaiser)
• Big History Project (OER Project / Macquarie University / David Christian)