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Travel back in time and examine many commonly held myths and half-truths about American history and prompt yourself to think about what really happened in the nation's past....

Take a journey across the ancient world, throught the traditional domains of politics and war, as well as religion, philosophy, architecture, science and the visual arts....

How is it possible for the disciplines of cosmology, geology, anthropology, biology, and history to fit together?....

These lectures consistently deliver a fresh level of understanding about medieval England, its rulers and subjects, and their significance....

This lecture series takes you on a far-reaching journey around the globe to shed light on two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and ideas since 1400....

These 48 lectures are your chance to relive the most groundbreaking moments in the fascinating story of the United States....

Step into the real world of the spy with this detailed and unforgettable tour of the millennia-long history and enduring legacy of espionage and covert operations....

These lectures are an engrossing and riveting journey into ancient history-and the life and times of the man who left an indelible mark on everything that would come after....

What impulse drove ancient cultures to create sites like Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, and the pyramids at Giza?...

Consider the intense and rapid changes that transformed the political, social, and economic struggles of the world during the 20th century....

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....

Few periods of history offer such captivating complexity as Europe in the long 19th century between 1789 and 1914....

For much of the past five centuries, the history of the European continent has been a history of chaos....

These lectures are the perfect introduction to Einstein, putting his scientific discoveries into the context of his personal life, his philosophical views, and his outlook on the world....

For more than two centuries, the Supreme Court has exerted extraordinary influence over the way we live our daily lives.

Through Professor Lichtman's eyes we see these 12 great leaders as they really were, contradictions and paradoxes included....

For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth....

These 24 necessary lectures trace the violent history of the 20th century....

Know thy enemy. That's what the wisdom of history teaches us. And Adolf Hitler was surely the greatest enemy ever faced by modern civilization....

This comprehensive series of 48 lectures sheds new light on this critical period by exploring the political, social, cultural, and economic revolutions that transformed Europe....