Taught by Professor Patrick N. Allitt
24 Lectures (30mins / lecture)
Course Lecture Titles:
1. Major Features of American Religious History
2. The European Background
3. Natives and Newcomers
4. The Puritans
5. Colonial Religious Diversity
6. The Great Awakening
7. Religion and Revolution
8. The Second Great Awakening
9. Oneida and the Mormons

War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500�2000
Taught By Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania,
University of Tennessee
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For much of the past five centuries, the history of the European continent has been a history of chaos, its civilization thrown into turmoil by ferocious wars or bitter religious conflicts�sometimes in combination�that have made and remade borders, created and eliminated entire nations, and left a legacy that is still influencing our world.
Is there an explanation for this chaos that goes beyond the obvious: political ambition, religious intolerance, the pursuit of state power, or the fear of another state's aspirations? Can we discover a hidden logic that could possibly explain the Thirty Years' War, the Napoleonic Wars, two World Wars, and other examples of national bloodletting? Is it possible to formulate a meaningful rationale against which to order a history as tumultuous as Europe's, gaining insights that enrich our understanding of Europe's past and future, and perhaps even of ours as well?

Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
Taught By Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania,
University of Tennessee
24 Lectures (30 minutes / lecture)
Course No. 8922
Hidden deep within the daily workings of governments and civilizations is a secret world of mystery, danger, and intrigue. A world where deception is a form of art. Where people are never who they say they are. Where the tiniest observation has the power to save an empire or spark a global war.
Welcome to the world of the spy�a world that most of us associate with popular fiction and film but the true story of which is more fascinating, surprising, and important than you could possibly imagine.
For thousands of years, espionage and covert operations have been powerful but shadowy forces.

History of Christianity in the Reformation Era
Taught By Professor Brad S. Gregory, Ph.D., Princeton University,
University of Notre Dame
We are the cultural descendants of the Reformation era, says Professor Brad S. Gregory in these 36 lectures on one of the most tumultuous and consequential periods in all of European history.
Regardless of whether we ourselves are religious, says Professor Gregory, our modern preference for belief bolstered by doctrine is "a long-term legacy of the efforts to educate, to catechize, to indoctrinate, that began in a widespread way during the 16th century."

Try this thought experiment: Mentally chart the main phases of European history to 1500.

We are all economists-when we work, buy, save, invest, pay taxes, and vote.

In 24 fascinating lectures, Oxford-trained historian and award-winning Professor Robert Bucholz of Loyola University Chicago takes you through London s history, from its birth as a Roman outpost in the 1st century C.E. to its current status as a 21st-century global village.