The Great Courses

Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language....

Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....

Far from being a time of darkness, the Middle Ages was an essential period in the grand narrative of Western history. Discover what it was like to actually live in this extraordinary era....

Throughout the course, a host of literary "case studies" will refine and elaborate on the concepts of artful reading....

Throughout this series, you'll look deeply into the nature and role of faith, the ethos of our civilization....

One of the greatest scientific feats of our era is the astonishing progress made in understanding biology-a progress to which the period we are living in right now has contributed the most....

While American history spans not much more than two centuries, it is filled with a wealth of leaders, wars, movements, inventions, and ideas....

The 20th century was a hotbed of musical exploration, innovation, and transformation unlike any other epoch in history....

The form of research-based meditation known as Integrative Restoration (or iRest) has helped special operations troops improve their resiliency, executives manage stress, cancer patients cope with pain, and trauma survivors experience safety and healing....

In these 24 lectures, an award-winning educator takes you on a journey, surveying the remarkable innovations that transformed humankind into the sole agriculturists on our planet....