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The American South
Cost $59 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
The American South is arguably the most important, yet frequently most misunderstood section of the United States. On this course you will unwrap the paradoxes of this complex region and get to grips with its fascinating history. Discover the history and...
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by Northumbria University Institute of the Humanities | Taught by Michael Cullinane, Joe Street, Megan Hunt and others
Smithsonian’s Objects That Define America
Cost $50 · . Course Length: 5 hours estimated
This course, produced with The Great Courses, will look at four key themes in the History of America as presented by Dr. Richard Kurin, Undersecretary for History, Art and Culture at the Smithsonian. American Icons – from the Star Spangled Banner to the Statue of...
Offered through edX | and created by The Smithsonian Institution, SmithsonianX | Taught by Richard Kurin
Seeing America (Art that brings American history to life)
Special topics in art history. Course Length: 3 hours estimated
Art that brings American history to lifeThis course contains 7 segments
Offered through Khan Academy
A Brief History of Human Spaceflight
Rated 4.2★ stars based on | 78 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 19 hours estimated
This course provides a view of the history of spaceflight, from early writings telling of human's fascination of space through the early Russian and American space stations. Developed as an interesting and entertaining slice of space history that is accessible to...
Offered through Coursera | and created by University of Houston System, University of Houston | Taught by Dr. Chuck Layne
Women Have Always Worked
A MicroMasters from edXCost $180 · . Contains 4 courses · . Course Total length: 84 hours estimated
Without women’s history we have only a partial and incomplete knowledge of our past. The Women Have Always Worked four-part series will explore women’s participation in the economy, politics, and social life of the nation, from Colonial America to the present day....
Offered through edX | and created by ColumbiaX, Columbia University | Taught by Alice Kessler-Harris, Nick Juravich, Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning and others
Surveys of history
US history. Course Length: 0 hours estimated
The tutorials in this topic will take you on sweeping journeys through time so that you can get the really BIG picture for how things fit together.This course contains 1 segments
Offered through Khan Academy
Introduction to American History: From Reconstruction to World War, 1865-1919
Cost $59 · . Course Length: 9 hours estimated
This course is for anyone interested in American history. You don’t need any previous experience.Topics Covered
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by The University of Newcastle Australia
Seeking Women’s Rights: Colonial Period to the Civil War
Women Have Always WorkedCost $50 · . Course Length: 20 hours estimated
As we see American women coming into positions of economic and political influence, we start to wonder
Offered through edX | and created by ColumbiaX, Columbia University | Taught by Alice Kessler-Harris, Nick Juravich, Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning and others
Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories
Cost $139 · . Course Length: 16 hours estimated
As we approach the centennial of the passage of women’s suffrage in 1920, there has been a recent burst of activism among American women. Women are running for political office in record numbers. Women are organizing and taking to the streets to demand change....
Offered through edX | and created by HarvardX, Harvard University | Taught by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Jane Kamensky
Black Lives Matter
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 25 hours estimated
The #BlackLivesMatter movement is the most significant political movement in African American life in the United States in the last fifty years. BLM leaders denounced anti-black racism, white supremacy, and police brutality and reshaped how we think about gender,...
Offered through Coursera | and created by Johns Hopkins University | Taught by Tristan Cabello, PhD
Critical Issues in Urban Education
Rated 4.8★ stars based on | 16 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 44 hours estimated
Urban school reform in the United States is characterized by contentious, politicized debate. This course explores a set of critical issues in the education and educational reform space, with a focus on aspects of the field that have sparked controversy and...
Offered through Coursera | and created by The University of Chicago | Taught by Sara Ray Stoelinga
Foundations for Transforming Teaching and Learning about Native Americans
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 4 hours estimated
In this course, learners will join the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to explore the impact of problematic narratives of Native Americans on U.S. society and education and learn ways to recognize and share more complete narratives both inside...
Offered through edX | and created by The Smithsonian Institution | Taught by Renée Gokey, Edwin Schupman, Colleen Call Smith and others
Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 – 2016
Cost $50 · . Course Length: 40 hours estimated
As we see American women coming into positions of unprecedented economic and political power, we start to wonder
Offered through edX | and created by Columbia University, ColumbiaX | Taught by Alice Kessler-Harris, Nick Juravich, Suzanne Kahn and others
Incarceration's Witnesses: American Prison Writing
. Course Length: 0 hours estimated
The U.S. incarcerates a larger number and percentage of its own citizens than any nation on earth: larger than China, Russia, Cuba, or Iran. American ex-offenders are arrested again at a rate of 67% within three years, and 75% within five years of release. This...
Offered through edX | and created by Hamilton College | Taught by Doran Larson
Interdisciplinary Teaching with Museum Objects
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 14 hours estimated
Teachers, don't miss this special opportunity to learn with four Smithsonian museums from home! Register for this 14-week course and join an online community of educators for an immersive exploration of teaching with museum objects and works of art. Museum...
Offered through edX | and created by The Smithsonian Institution | Taught by Candra Flanagan, Abby Pfisterer, Dr. Orlando Serrano and others
Gen 2: Front 2019
Front UX & Product Management Case Study Conference 2019Cost $35 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
Everyone has a personal history. Happy growth, as well as formative struggles and insecurities mold and teach us how to navigate our day-to-day. As a California-born Korean kid, Frank Yoo will talk about his experience as a second generation American, and how...
Offered through Pluralsight | Taught by Front
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Twain: BerkeleyX Book Club
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
This literature course will explore in depth Mark Twain’s 1884 novel, Huckleberry Finn, which has an important place in American literature and history. This novel is among the first in major American literature to be written in dialect, characterized by regional...
Offered through edX | and created by Berkeley | Taught by Maggie Sokolik
Teaching Historical Inquiry with Objects
Cost $50 · . Course Length: 12 hours estimated
How can you help your students to see history as a living, breathing record of the past? How can you motivate students to ask probing questions and seek complex answers? How can you bridge their historical knowledge with a lifelong commitment to civic action? With...
Offered through edX | and created by The Smithsonian Institution, SmithsonianX | Taught by Kathleen Owings Swan, Naomi Coquillon
Special topics in art history
Art history. Contains 3 courses · . Course Total length: 1 hours estimated
This course contains 3 segments
Offered through Khan Academy
War for the Greater Middle East
Rated 4.3★ stars based on | 6 ratings · . Cost $25 · . Course Length: 16 hours estimated
Over thirty years ago, confident in the superiority of American military power, the United States set out to "fix" the Greater Middle East. Since that time, U.S. troops, covert operatives and proxies have engaged in costly exertions in predominantly Muslim...
Offered through edX | and created by Boston University, BUx | Taught by Andrew Bacevich, Mark Kukis