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This speech, recited before court in 1873 is one of the greatest statements ever made on behalf of women's suffrage.

This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love.

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.

Psychologist William James now stands as one of the true intellectual titans to come out of late 19th century America. With The Will to Believe, first published in 1896, he argues that it is defendable to adopt a certain belief without prior evidence of its truth.

For thirty-three years Ravi Zacharias has spoken all over the world and in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford University.

The Mystery of Memory, the first documentary within the AstraZeneca Nobel Medicine Initiative, is a 30 minute documentary which delves into the foundations of today's memory research which was laid by early 20th Century Nobel Prize-awarded pioneers…

Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking.

Susan Cain is a former corporate lawyer and negotiations consultant -- and a self-described introvert. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts, notes Cain in her new book Quiet.

Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."

Self-acceptance is one of our most difficult challenges, no matter how much meditation or therapy we’ve tried.