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ROME 101: Foundations: Ancient Rome

When Hannibal wiped out a Roman army at Cannae, killing tens of thousands in an afternoon, Rome refused to negotiate and won the war anyway. A little over a century later the sa…

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AMR 101: Foundations: The American Revolution

Benjamin Franklin spent the Revolution helping to break up the British Empire, while his son William, the royal governor of New Jersey, sat in a Patriot jail for staying loyal t…

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AFR 101: Foundations: African History

Beneath the steps of a temple at Meroe, in what is now Sudan, archaeologists found a bronze head of the Roman emperor Augustus, buried where every worshiper would tread on it. K…

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SPAR 101: Foundations: Sparta and the 300

Three hundred Spartans held the pass at Thermopylae, the story goes, and died to a man. In fact there were about seven thousand Greeks at the start, the Spartans had seven hundr…

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AIH 101: Foundations: The History of Artificial Intelligence

In 1770 a chess-playing automaton dressed as a Turkish sorcerer toured the courts of Europe and beat almost everyone it played. Its secret was a human champion folded up inside …

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PRNT 101: Foundations: The Printing Revolution

The oldest printed book with a date on it is a Buddhist scripture from 868, found in a sealed cave in western China. Korea was casting metal type nearly eighty years before Gute…

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NUR 101: Foundations: The Nuremberg Trials

In 1945 Winston Churchill wanted the surviving Nazi leaders shot as soon as they were identified. Instead they were given defense lawyers, headphones in four languages and a yea…

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MAG 101: Foundations: Magna Carta

The most famous charter of liberty in history spends a surprising amount of its length on fish traps, inheritance fees and the size of a measure of ale. It was written for a few…

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HAITI 101: Foundations: The Haitian Revolution

In 1789 the richest colony on Earth was a strip of mountains and sugar fields on the island of Hispaniola, worked by half a million enslaved people. Fifteen years later it was a…

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MESO 101: Foundations: Ancient Mesopotamia

Around 1750 BCE a man named Nanni pressed an angry letter into clay. The copper he had paid for was poor, he told the merchant Ea-nasir, his messenger had been turned away rudel…

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