"During the last 30 years there has been a seismic shift in the global economy. Rising from poverty, backwardness, and a morass of failed policies, China and India- the two most powerful nations on the planet- have rapidly emerged as powerful economic forces. Meanwhile, during the first decade of the 21st century the U.S. experienced one of the worst periods of economic performance in its history. In the face of these realities many Americans understandably...

Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. Although the individual British American colonies later formed into one nation, this course explores their profound differences in origin and practice. In 36 lectures, Robert J. Allison examines the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations...

This set of twenty-four lectures examines aspects of elite and popular culture in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, focusing on the way in which men and women seeking to explain, order, and escape the terrors of their lives embraced transcendental religious experiences, dreamed of and worked for the coming of the apocalypse, and seized on a widespread belief in witchcraft and Satanism.