History
196 resources
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Western Music
Teresa M. Neff
This class will convey a broad overview of the history, culture, styles, and repertoires of what is generally...
History
Art, Design & Architecture
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century
Prof. David Kaiser
This class explores the changing roles of physics and physicists during the 20th century. Topics range from...
History
Physics
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Art History
Prof. Kristel R Smentek
This course investigates the power of art in historical perspective, focusing on Euro-American traditions of art...
Art History
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Modern Art and Mass Culture
Prof. Caroline Jones
This class provides an introduction to modern art and theories of modernism and postmodernism. It focuses on the way...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Magic, Witchcraft, and the Spirit World
Prof. James Howe
Spiritual, magical, and “occult” aspects of human behavior in anthropological and historical perspective: magic,...
Social Sciences
History
Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Bible
Ina Lipkowitz
This course is an introduction to major books from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Particular attention...
History
Literature
Religion
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Dynastic China
Prof. Tristan G. Brown
This course surveys the history of China from the first dynasty to the year 1800. It traces the rise of the world’s...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Classics of Western Philosophy
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course will introduce you to the Western philosophical tradition through the study of thinkers such as Plato,...
Humanities
History
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Victorian Literature and Culture
Prof. James Buzard
The course covers British literature and culture during Queen Victoria’s long reign, 1837-1901. This was the...
History
Anthropology
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Ancient Greek Philosophy and Mathematics
Dr. Lee Perlman
This course explores the relationship between ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics. We investigate how ideas of...
Humanities
History
Mathematics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
History of Media and Technology
Prof. Beth Coleman
History of Media and Technology addresses the mutually influential histories of communications media and...
History
Media Studies
Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film
Aaron Moore
This course covers medieval Japanese society and culture from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, when...
History
Sociology
Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Art Since 1940
Prof. Caroline Jones
This subject focuses on the objects, history, context, and critical discussion surrounding art since World War II....
Anthropology
Art History
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Finance and Society
Prof. William Deringer
This course provides students with a broad historical and social-scientific introduction to a central aspect of...
History
Finance & Accounting
Economics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Making of a Roman Emperor
Prof. William Broadhead
Through close examination of the emperor Augustus and his Julio-Claudian successors, this subject investigates how...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture
Prof. Mark Jarzombek
This course is a global-oriented survey of the history of architecture, from the prehistoric to the sixteenth...
History
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Intro to Japanese Culture
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines the major aesthetic, social, and political elements which have shaped modern Japanese culture...
History
Anthropology
Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Space Policy Seminar
Prof. Daniel Hastings
The seminar explores current issues in space policy as well as the historical roots for the issues. Emphasis on...
Policy and Administration
History
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Theories and Methods in the Study of History
Prof. Kenda Mutongi
This course examines the distinctive ways in which historians in different parts of the world have approached the...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Modern China
Prof. Tristan G. Brown
This course discusses China’s emergence as a global power, which has arisen out of two centuries of significant...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
American Urban History
Ezra Haber Glenn
This is a seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in American cities from roughly 1850 to...
History
Urban Studies
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema
Prof. Charity Scribner
21G.031 examines the terms “avant garde” and “Kulturindustrie” in French and German culture of the early twentieth...
Visual Arts
Anthropology
Art History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Rise of Modern Science
Prof. David Jones
This subject introduces the history of science from antiquity to the present. Students consider the impact of...
History
Policy and Administration
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Jewish History from Biblical to Modern Times
Prof. Peter Temin
This course explores how our views of Jewish history have been formed and how this history can explain the survival...
Humanities
History
Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Middle East in the 20th Century
Prof. Abigail Jacobson
This course surveys the history of the Middle East, from the end of the 19th century to the present. It examines...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Ancient World: Greece
Prof. William Broadhead
This course elaborates the history of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. It covers major...
History
Literature
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Economic History
Richard A. Hornbeck
This course is a survey of world economic history, and it introduces economics students to the subject matter and...
History
Economics
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Early Music
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
This course examines European music from the early Middle Ages until the end of the Renaissance. It includes a...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Interrogative Design Workshop
Prof. Krzysztof Wodiczko
“Parrhesia” was an Athenian right to frank and open speaking, the right that, like the First Amendment, demands a...
Visual Arts
Media Studies
Art History
advanced
MIT OCW
free
History of Science
Prof. Robin Scheffler
This course offers an introduction to the history and historiography of science from ancient Greece to the present....
Humanities
History
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Ancient City
Prof. William Broadhead
This course focuses on the archaeology of the Greek and Roman city. It investigates the relationship between urban...
History
Anthropology
Urban Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Sexual and Gender Identities in the Modern United States
Prof. Caley Horan
This course provides an introduction to the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in the modern United States, from...
History
Sociology
Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Indistinguishable From... Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition
Greg Borenstein
With a focus on the creation of functional prototypes and practicing real magical crafts, this class combines...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Game Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Art Museum: History, Theory, Controversy
Prof. Kristel R Smentek
Art museums are powerful and contested institutions. They are also innovative sites of architectural and artistic...
Art History
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to the History of Technology
Prof. David Mindell
This course is an introduction to the consideration of technology as the outcome of particular technical,...
History
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Ancient World: Rome
Prof. William Broadhead
This course covers the history of Rome from its humble beginnings to the 5th century A.D. The first half covers...
Humanities
History
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Classical Literature: The Golden Age of Augustan Rome
Prof. James Cain
Roman Literature of the Golden Age of Augustus Caesar, produced during the transition from Republican to Imperial...
History
Literature
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Japanese Politics and Society
Patricia Gercik
This course is designed for students seeking a fundamental understanding of Japanese history, politics, culture, and...
Humanities
Anthropology
Economics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Theory and Method in the Study of Architecture and Art
Prof. Caroline Jones
This seminar is open to graduate students, and is intended to offer a synoptic view of selected methodologies and...
History
Art History
Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Social Theory and Analysis
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This subject presents a survey of social theory from the 17th century to the present. It focuses on the historical...
History
Anthropology
Economics
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between
Prof. Margery Resnick
This subject examines the paradoxes of contemporary globalization. Through lectures, discussions and student...
Anthropology
Economics
Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Economic History of Financial Crises
Prof. Peter Temin
This course gives a historical perspective on financial panics. Topics include the growth of the industrial world,...
Humanities
History
Economics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 1917 to the Present
Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood
This course explores the political and historical evolution of the Soviet state and society from the 1917 Revolution...
History
Sociology
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The History of Computing
Dr. Slava Gerovitch
This course focuses on one particular aspect of the history of computing: the use of the computer as a scientific...
History
Computer Science
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Disease and Society in America
Prof. David Jones
This course examines the growing importance of medicine in culture, economics and politics. It uses an historical...
History
Sociology
Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
East Asia in the World
Prof. Peter C. Perdue
This subject examines the interactions of East Asia with the rest of the world and the relationships of each of the...
History
Sociology
Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
For Love and Money: Rethinking the Family
Prof. Heather Paxson
Through investigating cross-cultural case studies, this course introduces students to the anthropological study of...
Humanities
History
Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Once and Future City
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
Class website: The Once & Future City
What is a city? What shapes it? How does its history influence future...
Architecture
Geography
Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of medicine and biology. Topics...
History
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
History of Western Thought, 500-1300
Prof. Anne McCants
This course examines the development of the western intellectual tradition from the fall of the Roman Empire through...
History
Religion
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender and Technology
Dr. K.J. Surkan
This course considers a wide range of issues related to the contemporary and historical use of technology, the...
History
Gender Studies
Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine
Prof. Barry Posen
This course will conduct a comparative study of the grand strategies of the great powers (Britain, France, Germany...
Humanities
History
Political Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Unmanageability: Pathless Realities and Approaches
Gabriel Kahan
Over the last 40 years, new managerial technologies in Western democratic societies have emerged to dominate our...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Media Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Renaissance, 1300-1600
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
The “Renaissance” as a phenomenon in European history is best understood as a series of social, political, and...
History
Anthropology
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Anthropology of the Middle East
Prof. Susan Slyomovics
This course examines traditional performances of the Arabic-speaking populations of the Middle East and North...
Performing Arts
Anthropology
Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cultures of Computing
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course examines computers anthropologically, as artifacts revealing the social orders and cultural practices...
History
Anthropology
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Fundamentals of Computational Media Design
Prof. Barry Vercoe
This class covers the history of 20th century art and design from the perspective of the technologist. Methods for...
Art, Design & Architecture
Visual Arts
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Modern Japan: 1868 to Present
Prof. Hiromu Nagahara
This course surveys Japanese history from the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603 to the present and...
History
Political Science
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Historiography of Islamic Architecture
Prof. Nasser Rabbat
This seminar offers a critical review of scholarship on Islamic architecture through close reading of scholarly...
History
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Science of Race, Sex, and Gender
Abha Sur Abha Sur
This course examines the role of science and medicine in the origins and evolution of concepts of race, sex, and...
Humanities
History
Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Architectural Design Workshop: Collage - Method and Form
Prof. Mark Jarzombek
This class investigates the theory, method, and form of collage. It studies not only the historical precedents for...
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Attraction and Repulsion: The Magic of Magnets
Dr. James Livingston
This Freshman Advising Seminar surveys the many applications of magnets and magnetism. To the Chinese and Greeks of...
Physics
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Riots, Rebellions, Revolutions
Prof. Roger Petersen
This course examines different types of violent political conflict. It compares and contrasts several social science...
Humanities
History
Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Metropolis: History of New York City
Prof. Craig Wilder
Hitherto it had gone by the original Indian name Manna-hatta, or as some still have it, ‘The Manhattoes’; but this...
Humanities
History
Anthropology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Foundations of Western Culture: The Making of the Modern World
Dr. Howard Eiland
This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern...
Humanities
History
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
City Visions: Past and Future
Prof. Diane Davis
This class is intended to introduce students to understandings of the city generated from both social science...
Environmental Design
History
Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
European Thought and Culture
Prof. Thomas Nolden
This subject surveys main currents of European cultural and intellectual history in the modern period. Such a...
History
Anthropology
Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Islam, the Middle East, and the West
Dr. Mériam Belli
This course aims to provide students with a general overview of basic themes and issues in Middle Eastern history...
History
Sociology
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations
Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa
We will explore images that pertain to the emergence of Japan as a modern state. We will focus on images that depict...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Gender and the Law in U.S. History
Prof. Christopher Capozzola
This subject explores the legal history of the United States as a gendered system. It examines how women have shaped...
History
Gender Studies
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Emergence of Europe: 500-1300
Prof. Anne McCants
This course surveys the social, cultural, and political development of western Europe between 500 and 1350. A number...
History
Anthropology
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
American Classics
Prof. Pauline Maier
This subject is devoted to reading and discussing basic American historical texts that are often cited but often...
History
Anthropology
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Law and Society in US History
Prof. Christopher Capozzola
As events of the last few years have shown, the Supreme Court has played a crucial role in American political life....
History
Anthropology
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Nuclear Weapons Education Project
MIT Interdisciplinary Team: Robert P. Redwine, Professor of Physics Emeritus (Coordinator)
The MIT Nuclear Weapons Education Project aims to teach individuals, particularly those who grew up after the end of...
History
Physics
Energy
beginner
MIT OCW
free
Renaissance To Revolution: Europe, 1300-1800
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
This course provides an introduction to major political, social, cultural and intellectual changes in Europe from...
History
Philosophy
Religion
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Toward the Scientific Revolution
Prof. David Kaiser
This subject traces the evolution of ideas about nature, and how best to study and explain natural phenomena,...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Food in American History
Anya Zilberstein
This course will explore food in modern American history as a story of industrialization and globalization....
Climate Science
Public Health
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
How to Stage a Revolution
Prof. Malick Ghachem
This course explores fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions by looking at how people...
Humanities
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Territorial Conflict
Prof. M. Taylor Fravel
This graduate seminar introduces an emerging research program within International Relations on territorial...
Policy and Administration
History
Political Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Medieval Literature: Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer
Prof. James Cain
The course explores the literary masterworks of three of the most celebrated authors of the Middle Ages in their...
Humanities
History
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Queer Cinema and Visual Culture
Dr. K.J. Surkan
This course analyzes mainstream, popular films produced in the post-World War II 20th century U.S. as cultural texts...
Visual Arts
History
Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Arthurian Literature and Celtic Colonization
Prof. James Cain
The course examines the earliest emergence of stories about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in the...
History
Literature
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Media in Cultural Context: Popular Readerships
Prof. Sarah Brouillette
What is the history of popular reading in the Western world? How does widespread access to print relate to...
History
Media Studies
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Technology and the Literary Imagination
Prof. Leo Marx
Our linked subjects are (1) the historical process by which the meaning of technology has been constructed, and (2)...
History
Anthropology
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Social Study of Science and Technology
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course surveys canonical and recent theories and methods in science studies. We will organize our discussions...
History
Sociology
Philosophy
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Technology in History
Prof. Rosalind Williams
Today many people assume that technological change is the major factor in historical change and that it tends to...
Humanities
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
American History Since 1865
Prof. Caley Horan
This course examines the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the United States, from the Civil War...
Humanities
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Social and Political Implications of Technology
Prof. David Mindell
This course is a graduate reading seminar, in which historical and contemporary studies are used to explore the...
Humanities
History
Anthropology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Popular Culture and Narrative: Serial Storytelling
Prof. James Buzard
Serial Storytelling examines the ways the passing and unfolding of time structures narratives in a range of media....
Art, Design & Architecture
Media Studies
Art History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Asian American Studies: Literature, Culture, and Historical Experience
Prof. Emma J. Teng
This course provides an overview of Asian American history and its relevance for contemporary issues. It covers the...
History
Anthropology
Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Imperial and Revolutionary Russia: Culture and Politics, 1700-1917
Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood
This course analyzes Russia’s social, cultural, and political heritage in the 18th and 19th centuries, up to and...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Studies in Literary History: Modernism: From Nietzsche to Fellini
Dr. Howard Eiland
How do literature, philosophy, film and other arts respond to the profound changes in world view and lifestyle that...
History
Media Studies
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Medieval Literature: Legends of Arthur
Prof. Arthur Bahr
As a quasi-historical, quasi-legendary figure of consistently great popularity, King Arthur has been subject to an...
Humanities
History
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The World: 1400-Present
Prof. Anne McCants
This course surveys the increasing interaction between communities, as the barrier of distance succumbed to both...
Humanities
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
History and Theory of Historic Preservation
Prof. Max Page
This class examines the history and theory of historic preservation, focusing on the United States, but with...
Social Sciences
History
Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Science Writing and New Media: Communicating Science to the Public
Jared David Berezin
This course provides an introduction to writing about science (including medicine, technology, and engineering) for...
Humanities
History
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
American Urban History II
Prof. Robert Fogelson
This is a seminar course that explores the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban...
History
Urban Studies
Policy and Administration
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
History of Women in Science and Engineering
Maia Weinstock
This course provides a basic overview of the history of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
History
Engineering
Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Histories of Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies
Prof. Jennifer S Light
The histories of information, communication, and computing technologies have attracted attention from scholars...
History
Communication
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Anthropology of Biology
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course applies the tools of anthropology to examine biology in the age of genomics, biotechnological...
History
Anthropology
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Trials in History
Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood
This seminar examines a number of famous trials in European and American history. It considers the salient issues...
Humanities
History
Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Art of the Probable: Literature and Probability
Prof. Noel Jackson
“The Art of the Probable” addresses the history of scientific ideas, in particular the emergence and development of...
Humanities
History
Mathematics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia
Prof. Peter C. Perdue
This subject examines interactions across the Eurasian continent between Russians, Chinese, Mongolian nomads, and...
History
Sociology
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Modern African History
Prof. Kenda Mutongi
This course surveys the history of 19th and 20th century Africa. It focuses on the European conquest of Africa and...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Innovation in Military Organizations
Prof. Barry Posen
This seminar has three purposes. One, it inquires into the causes of military innovation by examining a number of...
History
Policy and Administration
Organizations & Leadership
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Inventing the Samurai
Prof. Hiromu Nagahara
This course explores the historical origins of the Japanese warrior class as well as its reinvention throughout the...
Humanities
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Israel: History, Politics, Culture, Identity
Dr. Nahum Karlinsky
This course examines Israeli identity using a broad array of materials, including popular music, film,...
History
Anthropology
Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Renaissance Literature
Prof. Mary Fuller
The Renaissance has justly become both famous and notorious as an age of discovery, and its voyages took place in...
History
Literature
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Medieval Literature: Medieval Women Writers
Prof. James Cain
This survey provides a general introduction to medieval European literature (from Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth...
History
Literature
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Civil War and the Emergence of Modern America, 1861-1890
Prof. Merritt Roe Smith
Using the American Civil War as a baseline, the course considers what it means to become “modern” by exploring the...
History
Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Environmental History
Prof. Harriet Ritvo
Focusing primarily on the period since 1500, explores the influence of climate, topography, plants, animals, and...
Humanities
Climate Science
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Culture Tech
James Rising
This class is divided into a series of sections or “modules”, each of which concentrates on a particular large...
History
Anthropology
Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The History of MIT
Prof. David Mindell
This course examines the history of MIT through the lens of the broader history of science and technology, and vice...
Pedagogy and Curriculum
History
Faculty Leadership
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Globalism in Modern Art
Prof. Caroline Jones
This course studies how international modernism interacted with the concept of “nation” and how contemporary...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Prof. David Ciarlo
From pineapples grown in Hawaii to English-speaking call centers outsourced to India, the legacy of the “Age of...
History
Philosophy
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Music of Africa
Prof. Patricia Tang
This course is an introduction to selected musical traditions of West Africa. A variety of musical practices and...
History
Anthropology
Music
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Modern Music: 1900-1960
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
This subject covers a specific branch of music history: Western concert music of first sixty years of the twentieth...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
International Relations of East Asia
Prof. M. Taylor Fravel
The aim of this course is to introduce and analyze the international relations of East Asia. With four great powers,...
History
Sociology
Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Making the Modern World: The Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Prof. Merritt Roe Smith
This class is a global survey of the great transformation in history known as the “Industrial Revolution.” Topics...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
The Making of Modern South Asia
Prof. Haimanti Roy
Survey of Indian civilization from 2500 BC to present-day. Traces major political events as well as economic,...
Humanities
History
Sociology
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law
Prof. Malick Ghachem
This seminar looks at key issues in the historical development and current state of modern American criminal...
Humanities
Law
Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Nuclear Weapons – History and Future Prospects
MIT Interdisciplinary Team: Robert P. Redwine, Professor of Physics Emeritus (Coordinator)
This course was designed to educate students about how nuclear weapons came into being, the physics of these...
Humanities
History
Physics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Prof. David Ciarlo
The rise and fall of National Socialism is one of the most intensively-studied topics in European history....
History
Anthropology
Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Technology in American History
Prof. Merritt Roe Smith
This course will consider the ways in which technology, broadly defined, has contributed to the building of American...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
History and Philosophy of Mechanics: Newton's Principia Mathematica
Adam Schulman
This course focuses on an in-depth reading of Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis by Isaac Newton, as well...
Humanities
History
Philosophy
intermediate
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Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico Ii La Costruzione Dell Italia
World History
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Universidad Carlos Iii De Madrid Deciphering Secrets Unlocking The Manuscripts Of Medieval Toledo Spain
World History
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Universidad Autonoma De Madrid The Spain Of Don Quixote
World History
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