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Category Archives: History
Spring classes now underway
Spring quarter classes are now underway at UCSD and UCLA. As usual, the UCSD podcast page offers an impressive array of courses (I count 89), but in a new and troubling development, some of the courses are hidden behind a … Continue reading
Posted in Academic podcasts, Courses, Five-star professors, History, Sociology
Tagged entertainment industry, Gabriel Rossman, Lynn Hunt, Matthew Herbst, Michael Parrish, UCLA, UCSD
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NYU rolls out free course on Ancient Israel
New York University recently began rolling out a new addition to its free open education courses on its YouTube channel. The new arrival is Ancient Israel (YouTube) taught by Daniel Fleming. So far NYU has posted only six lectures from … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Bible, Courses, History, Videos, YouTube courses
Tagged ancient Israel, ancient Near East, Daniel Fleming, New York University, open education
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Some old UC Berkeley favorites are back
I have been browsing around in the recently restored UC Berkeley Classic Courses, trying to find some of my old favorites from my Best free courses & lectures collection. It wasn’t easy because the restored courses are listed only by … Continue reading
169 Berkeley courses are back!
Just in time to celebrate the new fall term, UC Berkeley’s webcast team has finished posting 169 courses that went offline during the site’s remodel. These courses are now available on iTunes U in the Classic Courses section of the … Continue reading
Berkeley update: grassroots edition
While University of California Berkeley has yet to restore any of the missing courses to its website (background and here, here and here), at least one Berkeley fan has taken matters into his own hands. You can now find audio … Continue reading
Posted in Academic podcasts, Courses, History, Philosophy
Tagged Hubert Dreyfus, Isabelle Pafford, Jennifer Burns, The Internet Archive, UC Berkeley
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Of tea parties and revolutions
Many Americans have the vague notion that the Boston Tea Party of 1773 was a dispute over high British taxes on tea. And we all hate paying taxes, right? But as with many historical events that we think we know … Continue reading
Of skeletons, pottery and Indiana Jones
I once spent a year studying at Israel’s Hebrew University, where I took a spectacularly boring course in archaeology. Indeed it took some effort to make archaeology boring in that setting, surrounded as we were by monuments and ruins going … Continue reading
The Jewish Spirit of Secularism
In 1918 Max Weber famously wrote that the modern world “is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.” In other words, the rise of science and rationality has taken the magic and mystery … Continue reading
Posted in Academic podcasts, Courses, Five-star professors, History, Jewish studies, Philosophy, Religion
Tagged David N. Myers, disenchantment, Max Weber, UCLA
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Four history courses from George Mosse
The renowned cultural historian George Mosse (1918-1999) taught for more than 30 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Over the years a number of his courses were taped, and recently the university posted four of them on this website. Each … Continue reading
American News Media course from UCSD
News media surround us like the air we breathe, but we’re barely aware of how they operate and how they influences the way we think. But if you tune into American News Media (feed, booklist), a new course taught by … Continue reading
Posted in Academic podcasts, Courses, Five-star professors, History, Idea of the week, Political Science
Tagged Daniel Hallin, journalism, News Media, UCSD
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