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Yale University: European Civilization (1648-1945) with John Merriman

This course offers a broad survey of modern European history, from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the aftermath of World War II. Along with the consideration of major events and figures such as the French Revolution and Napoleon, attention will be paid to the experience of ordinary people in times of upheaval and transition. The period will thus be viewed neither in terms of historical inevitability nor as a procession of great men, but rather through the lens of the complex interrelations between demographic change, political revolution, and cultural development. Textbook accounts will be accompanied by the study of exemplary works of art, literature, and cinema.

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Fall 2008.

Inhalte:

1. Introduction
2. Absolutism and the State
3. Dutch and British Exceptionalism
4. Peter the Great
5. The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere
6. Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution
7. Napoleon
8. Industrial Revolutions
9. Middle classes
10. Popular Protest
11. Why no Revolution in 1848 in Britain
12. Nineteenth-Century Cities
13. Nationalism
14. Radicals
15. Imperialists and Boy Scouts
16. The Coming of the Great War
17. War in the Trenches
18. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Guest Lecture by Jay Winters)
19. The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
20. Stalinism
21. Fascists
22. Collaboration and Resistance in World War II
23. The Collapse of Communism and Global Challenges

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Yale University: France Since 1871 with John Merriman

This course covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of industrialization, and of the dislocation wrought by two world wars; and the political response of the Left and the Right to changing French society.

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Fall 2007.

Inhalte:

1. Introduction
2. The Paris Commune and Its Legacy
3. Centralized State and Republic
4. A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity
5. Workshop and Factory
6. The Waning of Religious Authority
7. Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
8. Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
9. General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
10. Cafés and the Culture of Drink
11. Paris and the Belle Époque
12. French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith)
13. The Origins of World War I
14. Trench Warfare
15. The Home Front
16. The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes)
17. The Popular Front
18. The Dark Years: Vichy France
19. Resistance
20. Battles For and Against Americanization
21. Vietnam and Algeria
22. Charles De Gaulle
23. May 1968
24. Immigration

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Yale University: The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight

This course explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877. The primary goal of the course is to understand the multiple meanings of a transforming event in American history. Those meanings may be defined in many ways: national, sectional, racial, constitutional, individual, social, intellectual, or moral. Four broad themes are closely examined: the crisis of union and disunion in an expanding republic; slavery, race, and emancipation as national problem, personal experience, and social process; the experience of modern, total war for individuals and society; and the political and social challenges of Reconstruction.

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

Inhalte:

1. Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?
2. Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
3. A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology
4. A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology and the Abolition Movement
5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality
6. Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
7. "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55
8. Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58
9. John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
10. The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
11. Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
12. "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies
13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862
14. Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
15. Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy
16. Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
17. Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War
18. "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad
19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic
21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction
22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President
23. Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor
24. Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"
25. The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"
26. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
27. Legacies of the Civil War

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University of California, Los Angeles: Modern Civilization 1750 - Present with Professor Lynn Hunt

Professor Lynn Hunt lectures in this course which covers a broad, historical study of major elements in Western heritage from the world of the Greeks to that of the 20th century, designed to further beginning students' general education, introduce them to ideas, attitudes, and institutions basic to Western civilization, and acquaint them, through reading and critical discussion, with representative contemporary documents and writings of enduring interest.

1. Introduction
2. The Enlightenment
3. French Revolution
4. 19th Century Europe
5. Revolutionary Moments
6. Nationalism and Nation States
7. Imperialism and Mass Politics
8. Fin de siecle
9. World War I
10. Duel Power

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Stanford University: Introduction to African-American History with Professor Clayborne Carson

This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930, focusing on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice. Clayborne Carson is a professor in the History Department at Stanford University.

1. Topics in this lecture include a course introduction and W.E.B. Du Bois.
2. This lecture focuses on W.E.B. Du Bois and the Great Depression.
3. "Shirley Graham: Transformation of an Artist/Intellectual".
4. "Paul Robeson: Star to Outcast".
5. "Bayard Rustin: Radical Outsider".
6. "Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Social Gospel".
7. Guest lecture by Awele Makeba on "The Women Who Made the Montgomery Movement".
8. "Ella Baker Inspires the Student Movement".
9. "Bob Moses: Mississippi Organizer".
10. Guest lecture by Vincent Harding on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
11. Guest lecture by Clarence Jones on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
12. "Malcolm X and his Ambiguous Legacy".
13. "Stokely Carmichael Defines Black Power".
14. Guest lecture by Elaine Brown on the Black Panther Party.
15. "Outlaw feminist Angela Davis".
16. Guest lecture by Erica Huggins.
17. This lecture has not been recorded.
18. "Tupac Shakur's 'Thug Life'".
19. "Barak Obama's American Dream".

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