Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Co. 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 970 EAKCall number: CD 970 EAK PART 2
Roth, Jonathan P.
Summary: Professor Roth, a military historian, presents a different look at war and its history. Instead of focusing on battles, campaigns, and strategies in individual wars, he looks at the story of the intimate interconnections of war with human cultures and societies and how these connections have shaped history. War not only destroys, it creates: the growth of essential new technologies; the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 1Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 2
Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 3
Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 4
Summary: Dr. Dorsey Armstrong is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Literature at Purdue University, where she has taught since 2002. The holder of an A.B. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from Duke University, she also taught at Centenary College of Louisiana and at California State University, Long Beach. Her research interests...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.1 ARM PART 1Call number: CD 940.1 ARM PART 2
Cook, William R. (William Robert)
Contents: pt. 1. From Jesus to the creation of the Church -- The first Christian institutions -- Christianities in the early Church -- Persecution and saints -- Peace between empire and Church -- Institutional and doctrinal developments -- Latin theology, including Augustine -- Popes and bishops in the early Middle Ages -- Monasticism: Benedict and his rule -- Evangelizing northern and eastern Europe --...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 282 COO Part 1Call number: CD 282 COO Part 2
Call number: CD 282 COO Part 3
Daileader, Philip.
Summary: Focusing on the seven centuries from 300 to 1000, this course examines the period of European history known as the "Dark Ages." The period is dominated by two empires, the Roman Empire and the Carolingian Empire.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.1 DAIArmstrong, Dorsey
Summary: "Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the brief, brilliant cultural phenomenon we call the Renaissance lay the Middle Ages-- fully 1,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and religious turmoil and treasures. This course offers an interdisciplinary look at medieval society and culture, with an emphasis on literature, the arts, and the tumultuous historical forces at work from A.D....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 ARM PART 1Ehrman, Bart D.
Summary: Presents a history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the end of the fourth century. Includes examination of Jewish-Christian relationships, Christian relationships with the Roman Empire, persecution of Christians, and the development of church offices and theology.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 1Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 2
Gregory, Brad S. (Brad Stephan)
Summary: Presents lectures delivered by Brad S. Gregory on European church history from 1500 to 1650.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
6 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 270 GRE PART 1Call number: CD 270 GRE PART 2
Call number: CD 270 GRE PART 3
Johnson, Luke Timothy.
Summary: Examines the spiritual, literary, and intellectual heritage of these three religions in relation to the mystical experience.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 204.22 JOH PART 1Call number: CD 204.22 JOH PART 2
Call number: CD 204.22 JOH PART 3
Lerer, Seth
Summary: Presents lectures on the history of the English language.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 420 LER PART ICall number: CD 420 LER PART III
Muller, Jerry Z.
Summary: This course is a cross between a text on economic theory and intellectual history bringing together the classic texts on capitalism beginning with its classical underpinnings. Dr. Muller's discussion provides the philosophical background to other studies in economic theory and history such as Socialism, Marxism with Capitalism and links them to the rest of the intellectual historical and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 330 MUL VOL. 1Call number: CD 330 MUL VOL. 2
Call number: CD 330 MUL VOL. 3
Guelzo, Allen C.
Summary: A survey of the American revolution, from its outbreak at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 until its close with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and the dispersion of the American Continental Army.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 GUE VOL. 1Ehrman, Bart D.
Summary: Twenty-four lectures on the history and varieties of Christian doctrines in the early church.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 229.9206 EHRGrim, Patrick.
Summary: Philosophical examination of the wide range of decisions all of us encounter in pursuing our lives. Professor Grim places the accent on individual choice covering questions about evolution and ethics, about whether punishment is justified by retribution or by deterrence and about the differing lessons drawn from life's worst horrors by both religious and anti-religious traditions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 170 GRI Part 1 of 2Call number: CD 170 GRI Part 2 of 2
Robinson, Daniel N.
Summary: Explores the principles that guided the founding of the United States, the conditions that led to the break with Great Britain, and the creation of such founding documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.2 AMEIrons, Peter H.
Summary: A thirty-six lecture course that traces the development of the United States Supreme Court from its founding to the present, with a focus on the landmark cases that have reflected conflicts in American society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 347 IRO PART 1Liulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 LIUKobylka, Joseph Fiske.
Contents: Part 1. Lecture 1. America -- The philosophical experiment -- Lecture 2. Historical baggage -- Lecture 3. Theoretical baggage -- Lecture 4. A Puritan beginning -- Lecture 5. Expansion and individualism -- Lecture 6. The revolutionary context -- Lecture 7. The road to the Declaration of Independence -- Lecture 8. A "natural" revolutionary--Thomas Paine -- Lecture 9. The unconscious dialectic of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320 KOBCall number: CD 320 KOB PART 1
Call number: CD 320 KOB PART 2
Call number: CD 320 KOB PART 3
Steinberg, Mark D.
Summary: Thirty-six 30 minute lectures by Mark Steinberg on the history of Russia.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 947 STECall number: CD 947 STE Part 1
Call number: CD 947 STE Part 2
Call number: CD 947 STE Part 3