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The world was never the same events that changed history

Professor J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma, delivers thirty-six lectures on great events that have shaped world history.

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Main Author: Fears, J. Rufus
Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2010]
Series:Great courses (Compact disc)
Subjects:
World history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1: Lecture 1. Hammurabi issues a code of law
  • Lecture 2. Moses and monotheism
  • Disc 2: Lecture 3. The enlightement of the Buddha
  • Lecture 4. Confucius instructs a nation
  • Disc 3: Lecture 5. Solon--democracy begins
  • Lecture 6. Marathon--democracy triumphant
  • Disc 4: Lecture 7. Hippocrates takes an oath
  • Lecture 8. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
  • Disc 5: Lecture 9. Jesus--the trial of a teacher
  • Lecture 10. Constantine I wins a battle
  • Disc 6: Lecture 11. Muhammad moves to Medina--the Hegira
  • Lecture 12. Bologna gets a university.
  • Disc 7: Lecture 13. Dante sees Beatrice
  • Lecture 14. Black death--pandemics and history
  • Disc 8: Lecture 15. Columbus finds a new world
  • Lecture 16. Michelangelo accepts a commission
  • Disc 9: Lecture 17. Erasmus--a book sets Europe ablaze
  • Lecture 18. Luther's new course changes history
  • Disc 10: Lecture 19. The defeat of the Spanish Armada
  • Lecture 20. The battle of Vienna
  • Disc 11: Lecture 21. The battle of Lexington
  • Lecture 22. General Pickett leads a charge
  • Disc 12: Lecture 23. Adam Smith versus Karl Marx
  • Lecture 24. Charles Darwin takes an ocean voyage.
  • Disc 13: Lecture 25. Louis Pasteur cures a child
  • Lecture 26. Two brothers take a flight
  • Disc 14: Lecture 27. The Archduke makes a state visit
  • Lecture 28. One night in Petrograd
  • Disc 15: Lecture 29. The day the stock market crashed
  • Lecture 30. Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
  • Disc 16: Lecture 31. Franklin Roosevelt becomes president
  • Lecture 32. The atomic bomb is dropped
  • Disc 17: Lecture 33. Mao Zedong begins his long march
  • Lecture 34. John F. Kennedy is assassinated
  • Disc 18: Lecture 35. Dr. King leads a march
  • Lecture 36. September 11, 2001.

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