A history of freedom [videorecording] /
The Teaching Company
- 6 videodiscs (DVD) (180 min. each) : sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 3 course guides
- The great courses. Philosophy & intellectual history .
Title from title screen
pt. 1. lecture 1. The birth of freedom ; lecture 2. Athenian democracy ; lecture 3. Athens : freedom and cultural creativity ; lecture 4. Athenian tragedy : education for freedom ; lecture 5. Socrates on trial ; lecture 6. Alexander the Great ; lecture 7. The Roman Republic ; lecture 8. Julius Caesar ; lecture 9. Freedom in the Roman Empire ; lecture 10. Rome : freedom and cultural creativity ; lecture 11. Gibbon on Rome's decline and fall ; lecture 12. Jesus pt. 2. lecture 13. Jesus & Socrates ; lecture 14. Paul the Apostle ; lecture 15. Freedom in the Middle Ages ; lecture 16. Luther & the Protestant Reformation ; lecture 17. From Machiavelli to the divine right of kings ; lecture 18. The Anglo-American tradition of liberty ; lecture 19. The shot heard'round the world ; lecture 20. The tyranny of George III ; lecture 21. What the Declaration of Independence says ; lecture 22. Natural law & the Declaration ; lecture 23. Miracle at Philadelphia ; lecture 24. What the Constitution says pt. 3. lecture 25. The Bill of Rights ; lecture 26. Liberty & Lee at Gettysburg ; lecture 27. Liberty & Lincoln at Gettysburg ; lecture 28. FDR & the progressive tradition ; lecture 29. Why the French Revolution failed ; lecture 30. The Liberal tradition ; lecture 31. Churchill & the war for freedom ; lecture 32. The illiberal tradition ; lecture 33. Hitler & the war against freedom ; lecture 34. The Cold War ; lecture 35. Civil disobedience & social change; lecture 36. Freedom & the lessons of history
Lecturer: J. Rufus Fears
Presents lectures delivered by J. Rufus Fears concerning the history of freedom from ancient civilization to the twentieth century