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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Available on: Digital Download
First published in 1845, the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass became Frederick Douglass's most well known work. It is as the name implies his autobiography.
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Speech on Women's Right to Vote
by Susan B. Anthony
Available on: Digital Download
This speech, recited before court in 1873 is one of the greatest statements ever made on behalf of women's suffrage.
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Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?
by Immanuel Kant
Available on: Digital Download
Written in 1784, "Anwering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" is one of philosopher Immanuel Kant's most influential and famous essays. Here Kant addresses the causes for a lack of Enlightenment in society, and the preconditions a person must meet in order to gain it.
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The End of Poverty
by Jeffrey Sachs
Available on: Online Video
One billion people on the planet are struggling with extreme poverty according to Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
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Holocaust History: Eyewitness Testimonies & Personal Stories
by Henry Greenspan
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s oral history collection is one of the largest and most diverse resources for Holocaust testimonies in the world.
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Cold War Documentaries - "Atomic City: USA"
by Various
Available on: Digital Download
Fears of a cold war turning hot were rampant from the late 1940’s to the 1980’s and no fear was greater than the fear of a nuclear war and whether or not we were prepared for one.
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Neuroethics
by Stephan Chorover
Available on: Online Video
Philosophers have long sought to answer questions about who we are, where we come from and where we’re going.
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JimCollins.com Lecture Hall
by Jim Collins
Available on: Digital Download
In the Lecture Hall, you can listen to what Jim Collins has been saying in his lectures and interviews.
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Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Critical Analysis of Argument Podcast
by Daniel Coffeen
Available on: Digital Download
An introduction to practical reasoning and the critical analysis of argument.
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Introduction to Psychology
by Jeremy Wolfe
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love.
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Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?
by Steven Hawkins
Available on: Online Audio
On this week's show, we broadcasted the 13th Great Debate held as part of the biannual Great Debate Series that Boston University's College of Communications began in 1996. The topic of the 13th Great Debate was "Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?"
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Self-Help Secrets Revealed Part 1
by Maurice Turmel PhD
Available on: Digital Download
Dr Moe introduces Self-Help Secrets Revealed based on 40 years of Self-Help pursuits and reading more than 500 Self-Help Titles from Psychology to Recovery to Spirituality.
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Allen Edwards Psychology Lectures
by Steve Buck
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
This series, made possible by a generous bequest from Professor Allen L. Edwards, brings prominent, nationally distinguished psychologists to the University of Washington to co-present with faculty from the UW Department of Psychology.
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Zaadz Notes: Learned Optimism
by Brian Johnson
Available on: Digital Download
"I can 'learn' optimism?" Yep, according to psychologist Dr. Martin Seligman, you sure can...and if you believe the research, you probably should! We all know that optimists see the glass as half-full while pessimists see it as half-empty. But, that doesn't come close to doing justice to the importance of optimism and how it affects our lives.
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James Randi Multimedia
by James Randi
Available on: Digital Download
James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, August 7, 1928 in Toronto, Canada), more often known as The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician, a skeptic, best known as a debunker of pseudoscience.
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Intelligent Designs on Evolution
by Mary Beth Kirchner
Available on: Online Audio
Questions about our origins as a species have been plaguing us as humans, prodding us as scientists and dividing us as Americans for more than a hundred years...
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The Osama bin Laden I Know
by Peter L. Bergen
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Peter Bergen and Steve Coll offer a portrait of bin Laden's life and nature.
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Zaadz Notes: Abraham Maslow
by Brian Johnson
Available on: Digital Download
Abraham Maslow is a cool guy...definitely one of my favorite teachers. An expert in the field of human motivation, and one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th Century, Maslow believed that human beings were innately incredible.
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The Cost of Corruption
by Michael Montgomery
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
Every day. somewhere in the world, a bribe changes hands.
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Global 3.0
by Chris Farrell
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
For many, globalization has meant rich countries getting richer at the expense of the poor. Today, it's not that simple.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Addresses
Available on: Digital Download
Duke University celebrates Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with programming that reflects on Dr. King’s legacy and how it continues today.
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Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity
by John Stossel
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Featuring John Stossel, Co-Anchor of ABC's 20/20, Author of Myths, Lies, And Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know Is Wrong (Hyperion, May 2006).
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Zaadz Notes: Authentic Happiness
by Brian Johnson
Available on: Digital Download
Martin Seligman is changing the world. As the former President of the American Psychological Association and Founder of the revolutionary “Positive Psychology” movement, he and his colleagues are literally creating a science of happiness.
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Ten Days in a Madhouse
by Nellie Bly
Available on: Digital Download
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and “stunt” reporter, had herself committed to the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York.
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Dream Psychology
by Sigmund Freud
Available on: Digital Download
With a simple, compact manual such as Dream Psychology there shall be no longer any excuse for ignorance of the most revolutionary psychological system of modern times.
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