History is a fascinating subject to study. There are so many areas and cultures to explore that it’s impossible to get through them all. However, many people are drawn to certain areas and periods and it’s interesting to see the reasons why.
Many Universities and Colleges now offer their history courses for free, online. It can take a while to sift through everywhere and find them all so we wanted to make a list where you could find the best ones, from the best institutions.
Below are 110 free online history courses for you to get through. Find your favourite and dive back into the past today!
A Tale of Three Super Powers – Missouri State
African American History: Yale
African-American History: Modern Freedom Struggle – Stanford
American Economic History – UC Berkeley
American Economic History – UMass-Amherst
American Environmental History – Dan Allosso/ UMass-Amherst
Ancient Greece: City and Society – La Trobe University
Ancient Greece: Myth, Art & War – La Trobe University
Ancient Greek History – Yale
America in Depression and War – MIT
America in the Nuclear Age – MIT
Ancient Israel – NYU
Australian Aboriginal History – La Trobe University
Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment – Stanford/UC Santa Cruz
Big History – Macquarie University
Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies – MIT
China: Traditions and Transformations – Harvard
Colonial and Revolutionary America – Stanford
Constitutional Convention – University of Oklahoma
Economic History of the Soviet Union – Marginal Revolution U.
Early Imperial Russia – La Trobe University
Early Modern England: Politics, Religion & Society under the Tudors and Stuarts – Yale
Early Modern Germany – UC Berkeley
East Asia in the World – MIT
Emperors of Rome – La Trobe University
Empire: Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Studies – MIT
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 – Yale
Ethnic Relations in the US – Arizona State
Europe in the 19th Century – UC Berkeley
Europe and the World: Wars, Empires, Nations 1648-1914 – UC Berkeley
European Civilization, 1648-1945 – Yale
European Civilization from Renaissance to Present – UC Berkeley
European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present – UC Berkeley
European Cultural History, 1500-1815 – University of Wisconsin- Madison
European Cultural History, 1660-1870 – University of Wisconsin- Madison
European Cultural History, 1880-1920 – University of Wisconsin- Madison
France, 1660-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, Napoleon – MIT
France Since 1871 – Yale
Freedom 101: Introduction to American Constitutional History – U. of Oklahoma
From Print to Digital: Technologies of the Word, 1450-Present – MIT
Gender and the Law in U.S. History – MIT
Hannibal – Stanford
Harvey Goldberg Lectures (1975-1983) – University of Wisconsin
Historical Jesus – Stanford University
History of Anthropological Thought – UC Berkeley
History and Practice of Human Rights – UC Berkeley
History of Information – UC Berkeley
History of Iran to the Safavid Period – Columbia University
History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan – UC Berkeley
History of the International System – Stanford University
History of the Modern Middle East – Columbia University
History of New York City: A Social History — NYU
History of the United States Since 1945 – UC Berkeley
History of the United States Since 1877 – Missouri State
History of the World to 1500 CE – Columbia University
History of the World Since 1500 CE – Columbia University
Imperial and Revolutionary Russia: Culture and Politics, 1700-1917 – MIT
Intellectual History of the United States since 1865 – UC Berkeley
International and Global History Since 1945 – UC Berkeley
Introduction to African American Studies – University of Illinois
Introduction to Ancient Greek History – Yale
Introduction to American Studies – UC Berkeley
Islam, the Middle East, and the West – MIT
Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film – MIT
Jewish History from Biblical to Modern Times – MIT
Libertarianism in History – MIT
Maker of the Modern World? Imperial Britain, 1714 to the Present – UC Berkeley
Making History – La Trobe University
Medieval British History – Bilkent University
Modern Civilization: 1750 to Present – UCLA
Modern Jewish History – Madison
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust – MIT
Race and Gender in Asian America – MIT
Renaissance To Revolution: Europe, 1300-1800 – MIT
Rethinking the Black Liberation Movement – University of Illinois
Rethinking Theory in Black Studies – University of Illinois
Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History – MIT
Science, Magic and Religion – UCLA
Soviet Politics and Society, 1917-1991 – MIT
The American Founders and Their World – Stanford
The American Revolution – Yale
The American Revolution – MIT
The Ancient City – MIT
The Ancient Mediterranean World – UC Berkeley
The Ancient World: Greece – MIT
The Ancient World: Rome – MIT
The Birth of the Modern: Europe and its Others – Arizona State
The City of Athens in the Age of Pericles – MIT
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 – Yale
The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000 – Yale
The Emergence of Modern America 1865-Present – MIT
The History of Public Health – Johns Hopkins
The Kennedy Half-Century – University of Virginia
The Making of Russia in the Worlds of Byzantium, Mongolia, and Europe – MIT
The Modern World: Global History Since 1760 – UVA
The Ottoman Empire – La Trobe University
The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000 – UC Berkeley
The Reformation – Westminster Theological Seminary
The Renaissance, 1300-1600 – MIT
The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich – UC Berkeley
The Roman World – La Trobe University
The Royal Family – MIT
The Story of Freedom in America – University of Oklahoma
The United States and the World Since 1945 – UC Berkeley
U.S. History from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World War II – UC Berkeley
US History: from Civil War to Present – UC Berkeley
The Western Tradition – UCLA
War and Peace: International Relations since 1914 – UC Berkeley
World Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution – UC Davis
World War and Society in the 20th Century: World War II – Harvard
Bonus:
Here are 25 online history courses delivered as lectures from Richard Bulliet of Columbia University: