The Teaching Company

Lectures from the Teaching Company:

• A History of Ancient Israel: From the Patriarchs Through the Romans
• 20th-Century American Fiction
• A Brief History of the World
• A History of Ancient Rome
• A History of European Art
• A House Reunited: How America Survived the Civil War
• A modern look at Ancient Greek Civilization
• Abraham Lincoln: In His Own Words
• Aeneid of Virgil
• African Experience - From Lucy to Mandela
• After the New Testament: The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers
• Age of Henry VIII
• Age of Pericles
• Albert Einstein: Physicist, Philosopher, Humanitarian
• Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
• America and the New Global Economy
• America and the World: A Diplomatic History
• American Civil War
• American Ideals: Founding a "Republic of Virtue"
• American Identity
• American Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism
• American Legal Experience
• American Mind
• American Religious History
• American Revolution
• Americas in the Revolutionary Era
• Ancient Greek Civilization
• Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
• Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Then
• Apostle Paul
• Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History
• Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning
• Art across the Ages
• Art of Northern Renaissance
• Astronomy: Earth, Sky and Planets
• Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
• Augustine: Philosopher and Saint
• Bach and the High Baroque
• Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
• Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
• Beginnings of Judaism
• Behold the Mighty Dinosaur
• Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza
• Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia
• Bible and the Roots of Western Literature
• Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity
• Big Picture Investing
• Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective
• Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality
• Biology: The Science of Life
• Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries
• Book of Genesis
• Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life
• Brotherhood of the Revolution: How America’s Founders Forged a New Nation
• Buddhism
• Building Blocks of Human Life: Understanding Mature Cells and Stem Cells
• Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft
• Business Laws - Contracts
• Business Laws - negligence and torts
• Business Statistics
• Can the Modern World Believe in God
• Catholic Church in the Modern Age
• Chamber Music of Mozart
• Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear
• Chaos
• Christianity at the Crossroads: The Reformations of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• Churchill
• Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights
• Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature
• Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome
• Classical Mythology
• Classical Mythology: The Greeks
• Classical Mythology: The Romans
• Classics of American Literature
• Classics of British Literature
• Classics of Russian Literature
• Cold War: On the Brink of Apocalypse
• Comedy Through the Ages
• Comparative Religion
• Concert Masterworks
• Conquest of the Americas
• Consciousness and Its Implications
• Contemporary Economic Issues
• Cosmic Questions: Astronomy From Quark to Quasar
• Cosmology: The History and Nature of Our Universe
• Creating Humans: Ethical Questions Where Reproduction and Science Collide
• Cycles of American Political Thought
• Dante and His Divine Comedy
• Dante’s Divine Comedy
• Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe
• Darwin, Darwinism, and The Modern World
• Darwinian Revolution
• Dead Sea Scrolls: The Truth Behind the Mystique
• Decline and Fall of Rome
• Detective Fiction
• Discovering the Middle Ages
• Discovering the Philosopher in You: The Big Questions in Philosophy
• Discovery of Ancient Civilizations
• Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography
• Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt
• Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine
• Early History of National Socialism
• Early Middle Ages
• Earth's Changing Climate
• Economics
• Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists
• Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion
• Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement
• Emperors of Rome
• Empire of Gold: A History of the Byzantine Empire
• Energy and Climate - Science for Citizens in the Age of Global Warming
• Epochs of European Civilization: Antiquity To Renaissance
• Epochs of European Civilization: Reformation To the Twenty-First Century
• Era of the Crusades
• Ethics of Aristotle
• Ethics: A History of Moral Thought
• Europe and the Wars of Religion (1500-1700)
• Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age
• European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914
• European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century
• European Thought and Culture in the 20th Century
• Explaining Social Deviance
• Faith and Reason: The Philosophy of Religion
• Famous Greeks
• Famous Romans
• Finance and Accounting
• Foundations of Western Civilization
• Foundations of Western Civilization II
• Francis of Assisi
• Freedom: The Philosophy of Liberation
• From Here To Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature
• From Jesus to Christianity: A History of the Early Church
• From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity
• From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism
• From Plato to Postmodernism: Understanding the Essence of Literature and Role of the Author
• From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History
• Fundamental Cases: The Twentieth Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation
• Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond
• Genius of Michelangelo
• Giants of Irish Literature: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
• Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov
• God and Mankind: Comparative Religions
• God Wills It!: Understanding the Crusades
• Great American Music: Broadway Musicals
• Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor
• Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance
• Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition
• Great Battles of the Ancient World
• Great Debate: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution
• Great Figures of the New Testament
• Great Figures of the Old Testament
• Great Ideas of Classical Physics
• Great Ideas of Philosophy
• Great Ideas of Psychology
• Great Masters: Beethoven—His Life and Music
• Great Masters: Brahms—His Life and Music
• Great Masters: Haydn—His Life and Music
• Great Masters: Liszt—His Life and Music
• Great Masters: Mahler—His Life and Music
• Great Masters: Mozart—His Life and Music
• Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann—Their Lives and Music
• Great Masters: Shostakovich—His Life and Music
• Great Masters: Stravinsky—His Life and Music
• Great Masters: Tchaikovsky—His Life and Music
• Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition
• Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
• Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism
• Great Presidents
• Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World
• Great World Religions: Buddhism
• Great World Religions: Christianity
• Great World Religions: Hinduism
• Great World Religions: Islam
• Great World Religions: Judaism
• Great World Religions: Religions from India
• Great Writers, Their Lives and Works
• Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean
• Greek and Persian Wars
• Greek Drama: Tragedy and Comedy
• Greek Legacy: Classical Origins of the Modern World
• Greek Tragedy
• Heavens Above: Stars, Constellations, and the Sky
• Hebrews, Greeks and Romans: Foundations of Western Civilization
• Herodotus: The Father of History
• Heroes Heroines and The Wisdom of Myth
• High Middle Ages
• High School Algebra
• High School Algebra II
• High School Basic Math
• High School Chemistry
• High School Geometry
• High School Level—Early American History: Native Americans through the Forty-Niners
• High School Level—World History: The Fertile Crescent to The American Revolution
• High Seas, High Stakes: Naval Battles That Changed History
• Historical Jesus
• History of Ancient Egypt
• History of Ancient Greece
• History of Ancient Rome
• History of Christianity in the Reformation Era
• History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts
• History of Freedom
• History of Hitler’s Empire
• History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev
• History of Science: 1700 to 1900
• History of Science: Antiquity to 1700
• History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon
• History of the English Language
• History of the Supreme Court
• History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century
• History of the United States
• History of World Literature
• How the Earth Works
• How To Listen To and Appreciate Jazz
• How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
• How to Listen to and Understand Opera
• How to Read and Understand Poetry
• Human Anatomy: The Beauty of Form and Function
• Human Body - How We Fail, How We Heal
• Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
• Icons of the Iron Age: The Celts in History
• Ideas in Politics
• Ideas in Western Culture - The Medieval and Renaissance World
• Ideas That Shaped Mankind
• Iliad of Homer
• Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy
• Introduction to Archeology
• Introduction to Greek Philosophy
• Introduction to Judaism
• Introduction to Number Theory
• Introduction to the Study of Religion
• Islam and the West
• Italian Renaissance
• Italians Before Italy - Conflict and Competition in the Mediterranean
• Jefferson: Visionary American
• Jerusalem: The Contested City
• Jesus and the Gospels
• Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century
• Journeys of the Great Explorers: Columbus To Cook
• Joy of Mathematics
• Joy of Science
• Joy of Thinking: The Beauty and Power of Classical Mathematical Ideas
• Joyce’s Ulysses
• Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
• King Arthur and Chivalry
• Late Antiquity: Crisis and Transformation
• Late Middle Ages
• Legacies of Great Economists
• Liberty and Its Price: Understanding the French Revolution
• Life and Legacy of the Roman Empire
• Life and Operas of Verdi
• Life and Work of Mark Twain
• Life and Writings of C.S Lewis
• Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
• Life and Writings of John Milton
• Life Lessons from the Great Books
• Literary Modernism: The Struggle for Modern History
• Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets
• Lives of Great Christians
• Long 19th Century: European History from 1789 to 1917
• Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication
• Luther: Gospel, Law, and Reformation
• Machiavelli in Context
• Making History: How Great Historians Interpret the Past
• Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature
• Masterpieces of Medieval Literature
• Masterpieces of Short Fiction
• Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature’s Most Fantastic Works
• Masterpieces of Western Music
• Masters of Greek Thought - Plato, Socrates and Aristotle
• Masterworks of Early 20th-Century Literature
• Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear
• Medieval Europe: Crisis and Renewal
• Medieval Heroines in History and Legend
• Mind of the Enlightenment
• Modern British Drama
• Mr. Lincoln: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
• Museum Masterpieces: The Louvre
• Museum Masterpieces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Must History Repeat the Great Conflicts of This Century?
• My Favorite Universe
• Mystical Tradition: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
• Natural Law and Human Nature
• Nature of Earth - Introduction to Geology
• Neolithic Europe
• New Frontiers: Modern Perspectives on Our Solar System
• New Testament
• Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition
• No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
• Odyssey of Homer
• Odyssey of the West I: A Classic Education through the Great Books: Hebrews and Greeks
• Odyssey of the West II: A Classic Education through the Great Books: From Athens to Rome and the Gospels
• Odyssey of the West III: A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Medieval World
• Odyssey of the West IV: A Classic Education through the Great Books: Toward Enlightenment
• Odyssey of the West V: A Classic Education through the Great Books: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Renewal
• Old Testament
• One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic: A History of the Church in the Middle Ages
• Operas of Mozart
• Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution
• Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations
• Origins of Life
• Other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Making of an Empire
• Palestine, Zionism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Particle Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos
• Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions
• Peloponnesian War
• Peoples and Cultures of the World
• Perspectives on Abnormal Psychology
• Philosophy and Religion in the West
• Philosophy and the Law: How Judges Reason
• Philosophy as a Guide to Living
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Religion
• Philosophy of Science
• Physics in Your Life
• Plato and Aristotle: The Genesis of Western Thought
• Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
• Plato’s Republic
• Political Theory: The Classic Texts and Their Continuing Relevance
• Popes and the Papacy: A History
• Power over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory
• Practical Philosophy: The Greco-Roman Moralists
• Principles of Economics: Business, Banking, Finance, and Your Everyday Life
• Psychology of Human Behavior
• Queen of the Sciences: A History of Mathematics
• Quest for Meaning: Values, Ethics, and the Modern Experience
• Questions of Value
• Reason and Faith - Philosophy in the Middle Ages
• Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
• Religions of the Axial Age
• Religions of the East: Paths To Enlightenment
• Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations
• Representing Justice: Stories of Law and Literature
• Rethinking Our Past: Recognizing Facts Fictions, and Lies in American History
• Rights of Man: Great Thinkers and Great Movements
• Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature
• Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism: A History of 20th-Century Russia
• Robert E. Lee and His High Command
• Rome and the Barbarians
• Roots of Human Behavior
• Science and Religion
• Science Fiction: The Literature of the Technological Imagination
• Science in the 20th Century: A Social-Intellectual Survey
• Science Wars - What Scientists Know and How They Know It
• Search for Intelligent Life in Space
• Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the 20th Century
• Sensation, Perception, and the Aging Process
• Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
• Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
• Shakespeare: The Word and the Action
• Shakespeare's Tragedies
• Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
• Sociology of Sexuality
• Soul and the City: Art, Literature, and Urban Living
• St. Augustine’s Confessions
• Story of Human Language
• Story of the Bible
• Superstring Theory: The DNA of Reality
• Supreme Court: The Law of the Land
• Symphonies of Beethoven
• Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition
• The American Dream
• The American Presidency
• The Bible and Western Culture
• The Concerto
• The Developing Adult - Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives
• The Ecological Planet: An Introduction to Earth’s Major Ecosystems
• The English Novel
• The Enlightenment - Invention of the Modern Self
• The Enlightenment: Reason, Tolerance, and Humanity
• The Hebrew Bible
• The History of Christian Theology
• The Incas: Inside an American Empire
• The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
• The Masters of Enterprise: American Business History and the People Who Made It
• The People and the Ballot: A History of American Party Politics
• The Search for a Meaningful Past
• The Symphony
• The Tiber and the Potomac: Rome, America, and Empires of Trust
• Theories Of Human Development
• Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy
• Thinking about Capitalism
• Thomas Aquinas - The Angelic Doctor
• Tocqueville and the American Experiment
• Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason
• Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language
• Understanding Literature and Life: Drama, Poetry and Narrative
• Understanding Movies: The Art and History of Films
• Understanding the Brain
• Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music
• Understanding the Fundamentals of Music
• Understanding the Holocaust
• Understanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology
• Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy
• Understanding the Universe: What’s New in Astronomy
• United States and the Middle East: 1914 to 9/11
• Unseen Diversity: The World of Bacteria
• Upon This Rock: A History of the Papacy From Peter To John Paul II
• Using Literature to Understand the Human Side of Medicine
• Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century
• Victorian Britain
• Vikings
• Visions of Utopia: Philosophy and the Perfect Society
• Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment
• Waking Dragon: The Emerging Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the World
• Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry
• War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000
• Way With Words III: Understanding Grammar for Powerful Communication
• Way With Words: Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion
• Western Literary Canon in Context
• What are the Chances - Probability Made Clear
• Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
• Wisdom of History
• World of Byzantium
• World Philosophy
• World War I: The “Great War”
• World War II: A Military and Social History
• Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers