A New Enlightenment | Steven Pinker
The Enlightenment "worked", says Steven Pinker. By promoting reason, science, humanism, progress, and peace, the programs set in motion by the ...
Long Now Foundation
Who was Voltaire? A history of Voltaire.
François-Marie Arouet; 21 November 1694 -- 30 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher ...
PragmaticMotion
Scholarly Editing of Literary Texts from the Long Eighteenth Century - Morning Session
Saturday, September 21, 2019 Graduate Club, New Haven, CT, AM Speakers: -Stephen Clarke, Curator of the Lewis Walpole Library's 40th anniversary ...
Yale Library
Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th Century
Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th Century Prof.Merin Simi Raj Dept. Of Humanities & Social Sciences IIT Madras.
History of English Language and Literature
Chapter 3.2: The Age of Reason and the Age of History
This video is part of the series: 'The Philosophy of the Humanities' which you can find here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Intromusic: "Styley" by ...
Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities
The Enlightenment in Britain (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Enlightenment. In Germany it's called Aufklarung, in France it's the Siecle De Lumieres, and in Britain it's called the Age of ...
BBC Podcasts
The Taiping Rebellion (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion.In 1850 a Chinese Christian convert, Hong Xiuquan, proclaimed himself leader of a new dynasty, the ...
BBC Podcasts
Forgotten Thinkers: Emilie du Chatelet
Visit my new website: http://www.wescecil.com A lecture exploring the life and thought of the 18th century thinker Emilie du Chatelet. Delivered at Peninsula ...
Wes Cecil
Continental Rationalism: The Philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz by Leonard Peikoff
History of Philosophy by Leonard Peikoff - Lesson 36 of 50 Course playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqsoWxJ-qmMuYO4AKp7NZ_qBy6gaj3cUv ...
Ayn Rand Institute
The Physiocrats (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Physiocrats, an important group of economic thinkers in eighteenth-century France. The Physiocrats believed that the ...
BBC Podcasts
How did the Holy Roman Empire Work? (Short Animated Documentary)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/history-matters-store-2 Special ...
History Matters
Calculus (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg discusses the epic feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented an astonishingly powerful new mathematical tool ...
BBC Podcasts
The Enlightenment in Scotland (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century. In 1696 the Edinburgh student, Thomas Aitkenhead, claimed theology was "a ...
BBC Podcasts
6. Smallpox (I): 'The Speckled Monster'
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (HIST 234) In the eighteenth century, smallpox succeeded plague as the most feared disease. The two maladies ...
YaleCourses
Voltaire - Life and Works.wmv
A brief lecture on the life, works, and philosophy of Voltaire.
Michael E. Brooks
Larry Wolff Interview - Inventing Eastern Europe, Said, Orientalism, Casanova, memoirs and Voltaire
Larry Wolff in conversation with Henk de Berg from The University of Sheffield on "Inventing Eastern Europe", Edward Said, Orientalism, Casanova, memoirs, ...
The University of Sheffield
The Decline of Violence | Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker changes the world twice in his new book, "THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE: Why Violence Has Declined". First, he presents exhaustive ...
Long Now Foundation
Let's Cook History: Enlightenment Dining (Food History Documentary) | Timeline
Check out our new website for more incredible history documentaries: HD and ad-free. http://bit.ly/2O6zUsK Lets Cook History is an entertaining and informative ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
Holy Roman Empire Explained
Looking at the origins and history of the Holy Roman Empire, assessing the claim by Voltaire that it was not holy, nor Roman, nor an empire, and finally looking ...
WonderWhy
Networks and Hierarchies: Niall Ferguson's Historical Perspective
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
The Island Of Vampires | Absolute History
The legend of blood sucking vampires has captured peoples' imagination for generations. A crack team of archaeologists and forensic scientists have ...
Absolute History
Why philosophy of science matters to science
In an era where science is increasingly specialised, what is the value of interdisciplinary research? In this lecture Professor Michela Massimi makes the case for ...
The Royal Society
Casanova's Europe: Venice
Venice in the 18th century was perhaps the most alluring city in Europe—the jewel of Italy. This glittering metropolis was the birthplace and most constant ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Fine Dining During The Enlightenment Period | Absolute History
Lets Cook History is an entertaining and informative five-part series exploring the origins of European cooking and eating habits. Each episode reconstructs a ...
Absolute History
7. Smallpox (II): Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (HIST 234) It is not known for certain when smallpox first appeared in Europe; however, the disease reached its ...
YaleCourses
Music and Theatre in Watteau's Paris
Learn more about the exhibition Watteau, Music, and Theater, on view at the Met September 22, 2009 - November 29, 2009: http://tinyurl.com/watteau Georgia ...
The Met
Why Study Religion and the Enlightenment in England and Europe with Jeremy Gregory
Until very recently the standard model for assessing the place of religion in the Enlightenment was one of simple opposition: Religion represented the ...
University of Nottingham
3.20.20 Live AP Prep Replay (FULL) | AP World History, AP US History, AP Biology
Thank you all for joining Friday's live AP Prep session - please enjoy this live replay. Here are the topics that were covered today (3/20) below! (0:00:00) AP ...
Kaplan SAT & ACT Prep
The Great Pox: The History of Syphilis - Professor Sir Richard J. Evans FBA
The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been imported into Europe from the Americas in the late fifteenth century as part of the ...
Gresham College
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities: http://www.essex.ac.uk/cish/ American Studies:http://www.essex.ac.uk/cish/american/ Liberal ...
University of Essex
Caroline Winterer: Historian Of America's Ideas
Join us virtually for a conversation about the pervasive impact Enlightenment ideas had on early American culture and how that changed the ways Americans ...
Commonwealth Club of California
How Sociology as a Discipline Emerged by Ankur Aggarwal
In this video, Ankur Aggarwal will cover Sociology Optional for UPSC CSE 2020 preparation. Learn LIVE from Ankur Aggarwal and other Top Educators on ...
Unacademy - UPSC Current Affairs
Classical Liberalism: The Decline and Triumph of Classical Liberalism (Pt. 2) - Learn Liberty
Lecture until 52:43, then Q&A. From the IHS Vault: Dr. Davies shows how classical liberal ideas grew as an intellectual movement in the seventeenth century ...
Learn Liberty
Prof. Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
Professor Pinker explores ideas drawn from his book entitled The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined. This lecture discusses the notion that ...
The University of Edinburgh
LITERATURE - Jane Austen
Jane Austen's novels are so readable in part because she wasn't an ordinary kind of novelist: she wanted her work to help us to be better and wiser people.
The School of Life
Deirdre McCloskey on the "great enrichment" of the global economy – Full Interview | VIEWPOINT
In the full interview, Deirdre McCloskey looks to the past 200 years of capitalism to explore her concept of the "great enrichment" and how it has advanced the ...
American Enterprise Institute
The Real Adam Smith: Morality and Markets - Full Video
The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg, takes an intriguing, two-part look at Smith and the evolution and relevance of his ideas today, ...
Free To Choose Network
Coffee Facts and Life Hacks! - Mental Floss Scatterbrained
We kick off today's episode of Scatterbrained with a timeline of how coffee gets grown and produced. Then, John Green tests coffee life hacks from the Internet, ...
Mental Floss
Russia: Empire to revolution (Oct. 6 class)
Watch video of Frank Wcislo, Dean of The Commons and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, leading an Oct. 6, 2010, class at the Osher ...
Vanderbilt University
The Treasure of the Russian Tsars documentary of Patrick Voillot
English : https://youtu.be/ZpHy5XnL9RI Deutsch : https://youtu.be/tAh1plxBzK8 French : https://youtu.be/VqVJ10kN4os Italian : https://youtu.be/-VWW4qnmITc ...
Voillot Patrick
Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV
The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, the Royal Oak Foundation, and NYSID welcome Dr. Wolf Burchard on the topics addressed in his new book, The ...
NYSIDNYC
Peter the Great: Tsar of Russia
http://www.tomrichey.net Peter the Great ruled Russia at the turn of the eighteenth century and launched several reforms to transform Russia into a modern ...
Tom Richey
