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  • Professor Daniel N. Robinson

    Ph.D., City University of New York, Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University; Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus, Georgetown

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

    View all 6 courses

  • Professor David Zarefsky

    Ph.D., Northwestern University, Northwestern University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Linwood Thompson

    M.A., Brigham Young University, Bellflower High School, Los Angeles, California

    Topics: High School, History

    Most popular course:

    High School Level—Early American History: Native Americans through the Forty-Niners

    View all 3 courses

  • Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz

    Ph.D., Princeton University, University of California at Los Angeles

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Making of an Empire

    View all 3 courses

  • Professor Joseph S. Nye Jr.

    Ph.D, Harvard University, Harvard University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Must History Repeat the Great Conflicts of This Century?

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Gary Hamburg

    Ph.D, Stanford University, Claremont McKenna College

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism: A History of 20th-Century Russia

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Garrett G. Fagan

    Ph.D., McMaster University, The Pennsylvania State University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    History of Ancient Rome

    View all 5 courses

  • Professor Bonnie Wheeler

    Ph.D., Brown University, Southern Methodist University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Medieval Heroines in History and Legend

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Allan J. Lichtman

    Ph.D., Harvard University, American University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Great Presidents

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor J. Rufus Fears

    Ph.D., Harvard University, University of Oklahoma

    Topics: Literature & English Language, History

    Most popular course:

    The World Was Never the Same: Events That Changed History

    View all 9 courses

  • Professor William R. Cook

    Ph.D., Cornell University, State University of New York at Geneseo

    Topics: Religion & Theology, History

    Most popular course:

    The Cathedral

    View all 12 courses

  • Professor Ronald B. Herzman

    Ph.D., University of Delaware, State University of New York at Geneseo

    Topics: Literature & English Language, History

    Most popular course:

    Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition

    View all 4 courses

  • Professor Peter Irons

    Ph.D., M.A., Boston University J.D., Harvard Law School, University of California at San Diego

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    History of the Supreme Court

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Allen C. Guelzo

    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Gettysburg College

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    History of the United States, 2nd Edition

    View all 6 courses

  • Professor Jonathan Steinberg

    Ph.D., Cambridge University, University of Pennsylvania

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Dale Hoak

    Ph.D., University of Cambridge, The College of William and Mary

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Age of Henry VIII

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Frederick Gregory

    Ph.D., Harvard University, University of Florida

    Topics: Science & Mathematics, History

    Most popular course:

    Darwinian Revolution

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Kenneth J. Hammond

    Ph.D., Harvard University, New Mexico State University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Pamela Radcliff

    Ph.D., Columbia University, University of California at San Diego

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor William Kloss

    M.A., Oberlin College, Independent Art Historian, The Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution

    Topics: Fine Arts & Music, History

    Most popular course:

    A History of European Art

    View all 9 courses

  • Professor Robert I. Weiner

    Ph.D., Rutgers University, Lafayette College

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Long 19th Century: European History from 1789 to 1917

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Glenn S. Holland

    Ph.D., University of Chicago, Allegheny College

    Topics: Religion & Theology, History

    Most popular course:

    Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Sherwin B. Nuland

    M.D., Yale School of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

    Topics: Science & Mathematics, History

    Most popular course:

    Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Andrew C. Fix

    Ph.D., Indiana University, Lafayette College

    Topics: Religion & Theology, History

    Most popular course:

    Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett

    Ph.D., University of Toronto, University of Toronto

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Development of European Civilization

    View all 3 courses

  • Professor Gary A. Rendsburg

    Ph.D., New York University, Rutgers University

    Topics: Religion & Theology, History

    Most popular course:

    Dead Sea Scrolls

    View all 3 courses

  • Professor Patrick N. Allitt

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Emory University

    Topics: Religion & Theology, History, Professional

    Most popular course:

    History of the United States, 2nd Edition

    View all 10 courses

  • Professor Marshall C. Eakin

    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Vanderbilt University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Conquest of the Americas

    View all 3 courses

  • Professor David B. Ruderman

    Ph.D., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, University of Pennsylvania

    Topics: Religion & Theology, History

    Most popular course:

    Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Brian M. Fagan

    Ph.D., Cambridge University, University of California at Santa Barbara

    Topics: Science & Mathematics, History

    Most popular course:

    Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Thomas F. X. Noble

    Ph.D., Michigan State University, University of Notre Dame

    Topics: Religion & Theology, History

    Most popular course:

    Foundations of Western Civilization

    View all 7 courses

  • Professor Lawrence M. Principe

    Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Indiana University at Bloomington; Ph.D., History of Science, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University

    Topics: Science & Mathematics, History

    Most popular course:

    Science and Religion

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Mark Steinberg

    Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor John R. Hale

    Ph.D., University of Cambridge, University of Louisville

    Topics: Religion & Theology, History

    Most popular course:

    Great Tours: Greece and Turkey, from Athens to Istanbul

    View all 8 courses

  • Professor Kenneth P. Vickery

    Ph.D., Yale University, North Carolina State University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    African Experience: From "Lucy" to Mandela

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Peter C. Mancall

    Ph.D., Harvard University, University of Southern California

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Joseph F. Kobylka

    Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Southern Methodist University

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    Cycles of American Political Thought

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Alexis Q. Castor

    Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, Franklin & Marshall College

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor David J. Schenker

    Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, University of Missouri-Columbia

    Topics: Literature & English Language, History

    Most popular course:

    Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Peter N. Stearns

    Ph.D., Harvard University, George Mason University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    A Brief History of the World

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Thomas L. Pangle

    Ph.D., University of Chicago, The University of Texas at Austin

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    Great Debate: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Robert Garland

    Ph.D., University College London, Colgate University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World

    View all 4 courses

  • Professor Mark A. Stoler

    Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, The University of Vermont

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    The Skeptic's Guide to American History

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Paul Gordon Lauren

    Ph.D., Stanford University, The University of Montana

    Topics: Philosophy & Intellectual History, History

    Most popular course:

    Rights of Man: Great Thinkers and Great Movements

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Steven L. Tuck

    Ph.D., University of Michigan, Miami University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Pompeii: Daily Life in an Ancient Roman City

    View all 5 courses

  • Professor Ian Worthington

    Ph.D., Monash University, University of Missouri–Columbia

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Peter Conn

    Ph.D., Yale University, University of Pennsylvania

    Topics: Literature & English Language, History

    Most popular course:

    Great American Bestsellers: The Books That Shaped America

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Robert L. Dise Jr.

    Ph.D., University of Michigan, University of Northern Iowa

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Ancient Empires before Alexander

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Jonathan P. Roth

    Ph.D., Columbia University, San José State University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    War and World History

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Dorsey Armstrong

    Ph.D, Duke University, Purdue University

    Topics: Literature & English Language, History

    Most popular course:

    Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything

    View all 7 courses

  • Professor Robert J. Allison

    Ph.D., Harvard University, Suffolk University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Scott MacEachern

    Ph.D., University of Calgary, Bowdoin College

    Topics: Science & Mathematics, History

    Most popular course:

    Origin of Civilization

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Richard Baum

    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Fall and Rise of China

    View all 2 courses

  • Professor Jennifer Paxton

    Ph.D., Harvard University, Georgetown University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest

    View all 6 courses

  • Professor Brad S. Gregory

    Ph.D., Princeton University, University of Notre Dame

    Topics: Religion & Theology, History

    Most popular course:

    History of Christianity in the Reformation Era

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Salim Yaqub

    Ph.D., Yale University, University of California at Santa Barbara

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    United States and the Middle East: 1914 to 9/11

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Timothy Taylor

    M.Econ., Stanford University, Macalester College

    Topics: Business & Economics, History

    Most popular course:

    Economics, 3rd Edition

    View all 6 courses

  • Professor Elizabeth Vandiver

    Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, Whitman College

    Topics: Literature & English Language, History

    Most popular course:

    Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition

    View all 9 courses

  • Professor Bob Brier

    Ph.D., The University of North Carolina, Long Island University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    History of Ancient Egypt

    View all 3 courses

  • Professor Gary W. Gallagher

    Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, University of Virginia

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    History of the United States, 2nd Edition

    View all 5 courses

  • Professor Philip Daileader

    Ph.D., Harvard University, The College of William and Mary

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Early Middle Ages

    View all 4 courses

  • Professor Robert Bucholz

    D.Phil., Oxford University, Loyola University Chicago

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World

    View all 5 courses

  • Professor Thomas Childers

    Ph.D., Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    History of Hitler’s Empire, 2nd Edition

    View all 4 courses

  • Professor Seth Lerer

    Ph.D., University of Chicago, University of California, San Diego

    Topics: Literature & English Language, History

    Most popular course:

    History of the English Language, 2nd Edition

    View all 4 courses

  • Professor Bart D. Ehrman

    M.Div., Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Topics: Religion & Theology, History

    Most popular course:

    New Testament

    View all 8 courses

  • Professor Kenneth W. Harl

    Ph.D., Yale University, Tulane University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Fall of the Pagans and the Origins of Medieval Christianity

    View all 10 courses

  • Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, University of Tennessee

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Turning Points in Modern History

    View all 7 courses

  • Professor David Christian

    D. Phil., Oxford University, Macquarie University

    Topics: Science & Mathematics, History

    Most popular course:

    Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

    View all 1 courses

  • Professor Jeremy McInerney

    Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age

    View all 4 courses

  • Professor Gregory S. Aldrete

    Ph.D., University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective

    View all 3 courses

  • Professor John E. Finn

    Ph.D., Princeton University, Wesleyan University

    Topics: History

    Most popular course:

    The First Amendment and You: What Everyone Should Know

    View all 2 courses

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