The wisdom of history

Part 1: Lecture 1: Why we study history

Lecture 2: World War I and the lessons of history

Lecture 3: Hitler's rise and the lessons of history

Lecture 4: World War II and the lessons of history

Lecture 5: Is Freedom a universal value?

Lecture 6: Birth of civilization in the Middle East

Lecture 7: The Trojan War and the Middle East

Lecture 8: Ancient Israel and the Middle East

Lecture 9: Ancient Greece and the Middle East

Lecture 10: Athenian democracy and empire

Lecture 11: The destiny of the Athenian democracy

Lecture 12: Alexander the Great and the Middle East.

Part 2: Lecture 13: The Roman Republic as superpower

Lecture 14: Rome of the Caesars as superpower

Lecture 15: Rome and the Middle East

Lecture 16: Why the Roman Empire fell

Lecture 17: Christianity

Lecture 18: Islam

Lecture 19: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey

Lecture 20: The Spanish Empire and Latin America

Lecture 21: Napoleon's liberal empire

Lecture 22: The British Empire in India

Lecture 23: Russia and empire

Lecture 24: China and empire.

Part 3: Lecture 25: The empire of Genghis Khan

Lecture 26: Britain's legacy of freedom

Lecture 27: George Washington as statesman

Lecture 28: Thomas Jefferson as statesman

Lecture 29: America's empire of liberty

Lewis and Clark

Lecture 30: America and slavery

Lecture 31: Abraham Lincoln as stateman

Lecture 32: The United States and empire

Lecture 33: Franklin Roosevelt as statesman

Lecture 34: A superpower at the crossroads

Lecture 35: The wisdom of history and the citizen

Lecture 36: The wisdom of history and you.