Great Courses

A curated directory of full-length university lecture series, high-impact MOOCs, and open audio-visual courses that offer deep intuition and rigorous historical analysis across the modern era.

Revolutions, State-Building, and Democratic Governance

• The French Revolution (Coursera / University of Melbourne / Prof. Peter McPhee)
• The American Revolution (Open Yale Courses / HIST 116 / Prof. Joanne Freeman)
• The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877 (Open Yale Courses / HIST 119 / Prof. David Blight)
• France Since 1871 (Open Yale Courses / HIST 276 / Prof. John Merriman)

Totalitarianism, Authoritarian Regimes, and the Holocaust

• The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World (Coursera / Tel Aviv University & Yad Vashem)
• The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution (Coursera / Tel Aviv University & Yad Vashem)
• Russian History: from Lenin to Putin (Coursera / UC Santa Cruz / Prof. Peter Kenez)
• The Making of Modern Ukraine (YouTube / Yale University / Prof. Timothy Snyder)

Regional Modernities and Global Transitions

• ChinaX: Creating Modern China: The Republican Period to the Present (edX / Harvard University / Prof. William C. Kirby & Prof. Peter K. Bol)
• Visualizing Japan (1850s–1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity (edX / HarvardX & MITx / Prof. John W. Dower, Prof. Andrew Gordon & Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa)
• The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part I (Coursera / Tel Aviv University / Prof. Asher Susser)
• The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part II (Coursera / Tel Aviv University / Prof. Asher Susser)

Global Diplomacy, Capitalism, and Modern World Systems

• Global Diplomacy – Diplomacy in the Modern World (Coursera / University of London & SOAS / Dr. J. Simon Rofe & Dr. Dan Plesch)
• Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform (Open Yale Courses / PLSC 270 / Prof. Douglas W. Rae)
• Global Diplomacy: the United Nations in the World (Coursera / University of London & SOAS / Dr. Dan Plesch)