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This course offers an in-depth look at 11 carefully selected figures: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O’Connor, William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Coover, Toni Morrison, and Don DeLillo.

Our greatest public orator, Abraham Lincoln’s speeches still stir the heart of any American who encounters them.

The Aeneid is ancient Rome’s great national epic. It was basic to the education of generations of Romans and inspired such writers and artists as St. Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Tennyson, and T. S. Elliot.

The writings that make up the New Testament stand at the very foundation of Christianity.

Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547), one of his biographers wrote, “changed the heart, mind, and face of Britain more than anything between the coming of the Normans and the coming of the factory.”

We call it the "Golden Age"—the period during the 5th century B.C. when the Greek city-state of Athens experienced a cultural flowering of extraordinary power and importance for Western culture.

This series of lectures examines a crucial period in the history of the ancient world, the age ushered in by the extraordinary conquests of Alexander the Great.

After a historical overview of the evolution of algebra, this course explores the various families of functions, from linear to quadratic to rational and, finally, to the family of exponential functions.

Algebra II is the crucial high school mathematics course in preparing for a college education.

From 1861 to 1865, slavery ended and a loose-knit republic became a unified, continent-spanning power. The price in human lives was greater than that for all other American wars combined.

The United States is often thought of as a "young" nation. But in fact, it is the oldest continuing democracy in the world.

What defines an American? Is it the love of liberty, the pursuit of justice, the urge to invent, the desire for wealth, the drive to explore, the quest for spiritual values?

Americans pride themselves on being doers rather than thinkers.

This course explores the particularly rich history of religion in the U.S.

The revolution that created the U.S. was only one of many "American revolutions." From 1776 to 1825, wars for independence erupted throughout the Americas—from Boston to Buenos Aires—creating 19 new nations.

Starting with the period from the late Bronze Age, c. 1500 B.C.E., these lectures proceed chronologically and concentrate on the 200-year interval from 600 to 400 B.C.E.

Paul is one of the most important, most controversial, and least understood figures in earliest Christianity. This course addresses many questions concerning his embattled life and work.

Long before he was declared a saint by the Church, Augustine (354–430 A.D.) gained profound influence as both a Church Father and a Christian Platonist philosopher.

Basic Math teaches arithmetic and prepares students for Algebra I and beyond.

Beethoven was a revolutionary man living in a revolutionary time. He captured his inner voice—demons and all—and the spirit of his time, and in doing so, created a body of music the likes of which no one had ever before imagined.

What is it like to practice your faith in an environment dominated by another?

Biological anthropology is the study of the evolution, genetics, anatomy, and modern variation within the human species.

One of the greatest scientific feats of our era is the astonishing progress made in understanding the intricate machinery of life.

Modern science, representative democracy, and a wave of wars were caused by a revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800.

The Book of Genesis, regardless of our faith, is something with which almost all of us in the Western world are familiar—a foundational work of our culture we have read and, we believe, understood.