History
Welcome to World University and School Wiki
which anyone can add to or edit.
The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting},
Multilingual University & School
where anyone can teach or take a class or course
- Add or take a free, open History course.
History
- Add free, open History subjects below.
Subjects
Add free, open History subjects | Web Site | Organization (if any) | Degree / Non-degree | Instructor's Name | Location | Other Info | Language | Tags |
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American Classics | http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-105Spring-2006/CourseHome/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Pauline Maier | Browser | Start anytime | English | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 | http://oyc.yale.edu/history/civil-war-and-reconstruction/content/sessions.html | Yale University | non-degree | Professor David Blight | Browser | 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 | English | |
France Since 1871 | http://oyc.yale.edu/history/france-since-1871/content/sessions.html | Yale University | non-degree | Professor John Merriman | Browser | 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 | English | |
Name | http:// | non-degree | Browser | Start anytime | English |
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Ideas
In Virtual World
Second Life, or other virtual world or space, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for classes?
Select Bibliographies
Select Blogs
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Select Programs, Applications, Software
Select References
Zinn, Howard. People's History of the American People.
Select Study Guides
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Select Websites
Select Wikis
Select Video and Audio
Zinn, Howard. 2009. Holy Wars. DemocracyNow.org