#Online History Courses

[hektora]

haul. if you even care

(christopher logue’s “war music: an account of the iliad”, three aristophanes plays, a swedish translation of antigone, anne carson’s “antigonick”, “a short history of greek literature” for my tragedy course, icke’s oresteia)

#the antigone and the aristophanes and the greek lit one are directly required for my current course #antigonick bc i want to own it… and war music bc i need. to read it #gah. money #has anyone read saïd / trédé’s greek lit history #my prof is super christian and this book feels like such a random choice lol AND #the blurb online said ‘BY CHRISTIAN AUTHORS!’ so i’m. 🧐 #but whatever. i guess

[cruelsister-moved2]

not trying to be a plagiarism apologist but I feel like a lot of ppl don't recognise that they're plagiarising bc they don't understand why u cite sources and therefore don't get how to do it properly. and idk if the focus on "copying/stealing" is actually constructive bc their teachers taught them to rewrite stuff in their own words so they don't understand the point of synthesising information.

the point is if ur actually contributing smth new then u NEED sources to underline that you didn't just make up what ur saying on the fly - rather than it being undesirable to admit to any ideas you didn't just dream up all on your own. and the contribution might just be summarising the existing literature, or applying existing ideas to a new context. actually coming up with new theory is the culmination of a lifetime of work.

I don't think we necessarily do anyone favours by pretending it's super obvious and intuitive. it's something you learn by doing, by writing progressively more original work as you get comfortable. the idea that information "belongs" to individuals is not necessarily constructive in the long run. obviously it's not okay to pass other people's work off as your own but understanding sources as proof texts rather than artist credits helps you to understand how you should interact with them. it's interesting to me that a lot of these ppl flip solely between just reading an article to you with different syntax vs just 100%making shit up out of nowhere which kind of tells you they think original work means doing the latter and when they understandably fail to do that all or even most of the time they resort to plagiarism

#try being a girl in a niche field absolutely desperate for sources that even remotely apply to ur area #and if ur writing abt feminism try finding anything that came out after the 1980s when of course feminism Finished and was Complete. #umm also something something about how all information is like open to questioning #another reason u cite ur sources is so someone can go 'that doesn't seem right?' #and eventually track downthe same primary source and make their own conclusions about it #or yknow see that you cited Wikipedia and laugh at you #and that's beyond this scope but whether a source is acceptable also depends so much #on the context & what information ur using it to prove #which like the online lgbtq community really needs 2 come 2 grips w #cuz a source from 1970 tells u what someone believed in 1970.wbich is useful social history #but that doesn't make whayever they're saying like. inherently true

[reasoningdaily]

As every Amer­i­can knows, Feb­ru­ary is Black His­to­ry Month. And as every Amer­i­can also knows — if the events of 2020 haven’t warped their sense of time too bad­ly — is isn’t Feb­ru­ary right now. But thanks to online learn­ing tech­nol­o­gy, we all have the free­dom to study any sub­ject we want, as much as we want, when­ev­er we want, irre­spec­tive of the time of year. Sources of inter­net-based edu­ca­tion have pro­lif­er­at­ed in the 21st cen­tu­ry, but long-respect­ed insti­tu­tions of high­er learn­ing have also got in on the action. Yale Uni­ver­si­ty, for exam­ple, has pro­duced the online course African Amer­i­can His­to­ry: Eman­ci­pa­tion to the Present, whose 25 lec­tures by his­to­ry pro­fes­sor Jonathan Hol­loway you can watch on YouTube, or at Yale’s web site. The first lec­ture appears above.

Orig­i­nal­ly record­ed in the spring of 2010, Hol­loway’s course exam­ines “the African Amer­i­can expe­ri­ence in the Unit­ed States from 1863 to the present,” involv­ing such chap­ters of his­to­ry as “the end of the Civ­il War and the begin­ning of Recon­struc­tion” and “African Amer­i­cans’ urban­iza­tion expe­ri­ences.”

It also includes lec­tures on the “thought and lead­er­ship of Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, Ida B. Wells-Bar­nett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mar­cus Gar­vey, Mar­tin Luther King Jr., and Mal­colm X” — all writ­ers and thinkers Open Cul­ture read­ers will have encoun­tered before, but a course like African Amer­i­can His­to­ry: Eman­ci­pa­tion to the Present offers the oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­sid­er their lives and work in clear­er con­text and greater detail.

Black his­to­ry has deep­er roots in some parts of the Unit­ed States than oth­ers. But that does­n’t mean the uni­ver­si­ties of the west have noth­ing to offer in this depart­ment: take, for exam­ple, Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty’s African-Amer­i­can His­to­ry: Mod­ern Free­dom Strug­gle, taught by the his­to­ri­an (and edi­tor of MLK’s papers) Clay­borne Car­son. Avail­able to watch on YouTube and iTunes (or right above), its 18 lec­tures deliv­er an intro­duc­tion to “African-Amer­i­can his­to­ry, with par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on the polit­i­cal thought and protest move­ments of the peri­od after 1930, focus­ing on select­ed indi­vid­u­als who have shaped and been shaped by mod­ern African-Amer­i­can strug­gles for free­dom and jus­tice.” Tak­en togeth­er, these online cours­es offer you more than enough mate­r­i­al to hold your own Black His­to­ry Month right now.

Note: Clay Car­son­’s course can also be tak­en as a MOOC on edX. Enroll now in Amer­i­can Prophet: The Inner Life and Glob­al Vision of Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. And find the cours­es list­ed above in our col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.

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[butch4maryoliver]

the leftist sphere online and its insistence that nuance is critical while it completely waives it and transforms major issues into black-and-white is so….

#thinking of israel. the left (online) is so highly reactionary it’s absurd. the only thing that isn’t complicated is israel’s #documented war crimes against people within the near & middle east- particularly palestine of course #the military occupation isn’t complicated- though look even somewhat closely at any strain of its existence and that is complicated. heavil #leftism online with infographics and people “watching people learn and never learning themselves” is so frustrating #i am tired of people doing pop-research claiming to be authorities. you’re not on the ground. you have time in abundance. #do the hard work of giving justice to the stories of palestinians jews and yes even israelis since there #is a well-documented culture of revolt against the alt-right gov by its citizens- born and immigrated. #there’s so so much and so so much gets dismissed. if we were all on the ground this wouldn’t be an issue- but seriously. #we’re not. we only have time and conversation. and all of that is disregarded for easy reactionary targets #*this wouldn’t be an issue as in we would obviously have no ‘free time’ to divvy on research #i expect nothing from palestinian journalists and civilians but to do what they can even if that’s so bare as survive #it’s a hope rather than expectation #but if you’re in the west (if you’re reading this ik pretty much everyone following me is) you have an abundance of time to #remember nuance and history is real btw and especially that the history of jews and palestine pre-1948 is extremely intertwined #my one brief statement is you’re not decolonial if you want palestine to be drawn back to 1948. that’s quite the opposite really. #look into it man

[thoughtportal]

Global history is not just significant events on a timeline, it is also the ordinary, mundane moments that people experience in between. Graphic novels can capture this multidimensionality in ways that are difficult, and sometimes impossible, in more traditional media formats, says Stanford history professor Tom Mullaney.

#article #books and authors #books and writing #books and reading #books and literature #books and libraries #books and history #history #world history #history books #graphic novels #historical graphic novels #stanford #online course #education #book bans #banned books

[medievalistsnet]

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[bosquedemel]

this is so silly but. during the 2020 lockdown i uncovered my remaining school textbooks - from middle school and high school, mostly history, geography and portuguese - and i read a bit from them again. as a result i got really into these subjects again and i even bought some exercise books to basically "study" them again (and even science and physics. and french). some of my original exercise books were still unused so i started doing them too. anyway guess what i've been up to again 😅

#listen some ppl do online courses and read wikipedia and stuff and this is pretty much the same thing #<- how i rationalize being such a nerd #this was also a result of me needing to study high school history again to do my entrance exam to go back to Uni #it just snowballed from there #text #I LOVE KNOWLEDGE

[tariah23]

Whoever keeps sending me asks about the anon post I deleted, it’s over.

#don’t care to argue since I don’t argue or get into shit online with people anyway #all I did was reply to a message (I don’t keep up with people on tumblr or URLs) but I looked up that persons name and saw some familier #folks associated with them who were known for being antiblack here and I’d didn’t want a post done someone defending that on my blog that’s #literally it #as I’ve said #idk this person I’ve just seen things in passing and of course tumblr has never respected trans people or poc #there are always things going around trying to make them out to be predators and harmful to the community and that’s awful was hell #trans women are especially targeted the most and tumblr has a history of wiping them off the face of the platform for even breathing and #it sucks because there’s nothing you can do about it but yeah #I’m just done talking don’t send me anymore asks I will just delete them #I’m gonna just block you again if you try to send me anything I don’t argue with people online and I don’t care to get into any discourse #rambling #this is not what this blog is about #maybe there was a misunderstanding a long the way but you started off calling me names and shit and we don’t do that here #alluding to me being a transphobe is something that I won’t stand behind though just because I did my own quick research of their url and #found some things that alarmed me #I don’t know this person but I don’t want to put just anyone on my blog with discourse surrounding them #move around

[elaineofascolat]

i wanna take a course on arthurian lit soooo bad there's one at my uni that i would be able to take bc there's no english class requirements if it weren't for the fact it's on the campus that's way far away from me i'm so sad

#also i looked at online courses but i cant find anything that's like. a real course where you would have to write essays and stuff #like cool to learn about this stuff yeah but i also want to do assignments and engage with other people's thoughts #sometimes i'm sad that i chose history as my major but then i remember i dont care about english much XGFHTFXGHFXXCFTS #like i love arthurian lit and would gladly make medieval lit my main focus if i knew what to do with that or how to do that but i dont #and at the end of the day i think history is a better choice bc i'm more interested in it overall instead of like. zoomed in on one section #even if i do prefer medieval history #hopefully i can teach medieval history maybe i can someday teach arthurian history or some shit

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

til that the crusade that was the most/one of the most successful was led by someone who was fucking excommunicated b/c the pope got impatient with him. And he did it without fighting anyone?? He used his words?? Like, I don't like his goals or motivations or him but it's wild how that worked out

#tbf his family and the catholic church did NOT get along #im taking a modern history course online and they really went 'look at these crusadors (derogatory). what tools' and im LIVING for it #history #jay rambles #crusades #sixth crusade #my post

[sharon2024]

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[demetrio-student]

Latin #1

Latin Language and Culture Mastery

Course Duration: 2 Months

Objective: To achieve proficiency in Latin language skills, including grammar, vocabulary, translating, and cultural understanding.

Course Structure

Week 1—2: Foundation Building

Week 1: Introduction to Latin Basics Day 1—3: → Introduction to Latin alphabet, pronunciation, and basic greetings → Study noun declensions (1st and 2nd decisions) and basic vocabulary → Practice conjugating verbs (present tense) and forming simple sentences

Week 2: Building Blocks of Grammar Day 4—6: → Dive deeper into noun declensions (3rd, 4th, and 5th declensions) and adjective agreement → Expand verb conjugations (present, imperfect, future tenses) and study irregular verbs → Translate short passages and practice identifying grammatical elements

Week 3—4: Intermediate Level Mastery

Week 3: Grammar Refinement Day 7—9: → Review noun and verb conjugations → Study case usage (nominative, accusative, genetive, dative, ablative) and their functions → Translate longer passages with emphasis on grammatical accuracy

Week 4: Vocabulary Expansion Day 10—12: → Introduce thematic vocabulary sets (e.g., family, occupations, nature). → Practice using new vocabulary in context through reading exercises and writing assignments. → Explore Latin idioms and expressions.

Week 5—6: Advanced Language Proficiency

Week 5: Advanced Grammar Concepts Day 13—15: → Study participles, gerunds, and gerundives → Explore complex sentence structures (subordinate clauses, indirect speech) → Analyze and translate excerpts from classical Latin literature

Week 6: Translation and Composition Day 16—18: → Focus on translation strategies and techniques -> Practice composing original sentences and short paragraphs → Write journal entries in Latin reflecting on personal experiences or topics of interest.

Week 7—8: Cultural Immersion and Enrichment

Week 7: Roman History and Culture Day 19—21: → Study key periods of Roman history and significant figures → Explore Roman mythology, religion, and daily life → Research and present on a chosen aspect of Roman culture

Week 8: Latin Influence and Legacy Day 22—24: → Investigate the influence of Latin on modern languages and disciplines. → Learn about Latin in contemporary contexts, such as legal, scientific, and academic usage. → Discuss the enduring legacy of Latin literature and its impact on Western civilization

Week 9—10: Mastery and Review

Week 9: Consolidation and Review Day 25—27: → Review all grammar concepts, vocabulary sets, and translation techniques covered. → Complete comprehensive exercises and quizzes to assess understanding and retention. → Seek feedback from peers or instructors on areas for improvement.

Week 10: Culmination and Reflection Day 28—30: → Apply acquired skils to translate and analyze a challenging Latin text. → Reflect on the learning journey, noting progress and areas of growth. → Set goals for continued Latin study and exploration of related topics.

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[ravenkings]

it probably should have occurred to me earlier but one reason it would be difficult to have a show like hbo rome today is that you would have to contend with the trad/white supremacist contingent who inexplicably have an ancient rome boner. 

#like literally i hate that if you're trying to find any content/info online about ancient rome #you have to go through the song-and-dance of ''is the person producing/transmitting this content a white supremacist?'' #the irony of course is that all these people are like ''ancient rome was back when men were REAL MEN'' #when if you actually know the history you know all the ancient roman conservatives in like 50 BCE or whatever were like #''these WEAK EFFEMINATE MEN these days. we need to go back to the PUNIC WARS when men were REAL MEN'' #hbo rome #ancient rome #history #text

[werewolf-kat]

T-Totally normal... Oh gosh.

#wk speaks #I'm actually speechless but also very thankful so many people are eating up this drawing?? #I'm no art blog sadly but I'll try to rebuild my confidence in sharing art a little more often again #this is giving me some flashbacks to my deviantart days where my most liked art was Sonic Unleashed art sdfsdf oh my gosh #I salute you fellow Sonic Unleashed fans - I am also one of course #just haven't felt the flow for Sonic art in years and am slowly trying to dip into it again... #I'm getting like a nostalgic feeling from this situation weirdly enough #those who know my long online artist history KNOW #AKA just my closest friends at this point I think... I hope... #(I'll be scared if I'm recognized [by random people here] from a long distant internet past honestly HAHA)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

"Ed Iskandar talked with God. Then it was Lucifer’s turn. Now he was addressing Adam and Eve.

[...]

Right now, Iskandar was rehearsing the plays from Act I, including Madeleine George’s 10-minute piece about the Fall of Man, which she gives the elaborate title,  “A Worm Walks Into A Garden or The Fall of Man, an experiment in motive and comedy.”  In it, Lucifer tells dumb jokes to Adam and Eve, as a way of seducing them. Adam finds them funny. Eve doesn’t.

“You’re missing a crucial part of your anatomy,” Lucifer says to Eve. “The funnybone.”

Lucifer is being played by Asia Kate Dillon.

[...]

Dillon was writhing and entwining themself around Eve.  Suddenly Chase Brock, the show’s choreographer, got down on the floor and started to writhe on the floor along with Lucifer. Brock had researched the earthworm, and showed some pictures of earthworms to Dillon on his laptop to suggest other moves they could make."

"50 different plays by almost as many different playwrights is a massive undertaking in which each vignette varies in tone from the one before it.  The actors playing the characters do not change from play to play; this forces the performers to be as comfortable and convincing with farce as they are playing tragedy.  It is also fascinating to contemplate the mental and emotional gymnastics that each performer of The Bats (the resident acting company of The Flea) must have undergone to ensure that each character maintains the same internal psychological throughline when they appear in different plays by very different authors.

The first act deals with the Old Testament books and the Nativity.  In playwright Dale Orlandersmith’s Song of the Trimorph, the angels in Heaven mindlessly worship God (a deliciously petty, yet shrewdly authoritative Matthew Jeffers), who takes it as His due until Lucifer (Asia Kate Dillon) starts to question whether love without choice means anything.

Dillon’s beautifully delicate, white-haired devil is one of the show’s most complex figures. Watching them evolve from nuanced philosopher to diabolical heavy to world-weary cynic, depending on the vignette, is fascinating.  The narrative speeds its way through the Bible. Highlights include Madeleine George’s surprisingly feminist take on the Adam and Eve story; Hwang’s marvelously urgent Cain and Abel tale, which posits the first murder as a story of vengeance against a capricious God; and Mallery Avidon’s whimsically horrifying tale of Noah’s Flood, which also entails the deaths of everyone who didn’t make it aboard the Ark.

[...]

The show’s second section deals with the Life of Jesus, with Colin Waitt’s astonishingly variegated boy-next-door Jesus shifting from an idealistic dreamer as he travels with Mary and Joseph to a forceful, almost angry philosopher when he argues with Lucifer about the nature of love to a bratty dolt when he confronts Gabriel about his inevitable fate.  The fact that the playwrights clearly have a different idea of Jesus’s personality sets Wiatt a complex task:  He has to make his Christ the same in all situations; whether he’s being comic or tragic, Wiatt is convincing and moving in a performance of stunning versatility.

Indeed, his likable turns in Gabriel Jason Dean’s beautiful Christ Enters Jerusalem makes his ferocious agonies in Qui Nguyen’s Christ Before Herod and his subsequent crucifixion all the more heartrending. The third act deals with Christ’s resurrection and humanity’s fate at the Day of Judgment, and includes a series of plays set in modern times, as well as God’s final words to Lucifer, Jesus, and to us.  The show’s final Day of Judgment coda by Jose Rivera is an essay of forgiveness and unexpected love."

"Overall, the point of view of The Mysteries leans toward deism, the Enlightenment philosophy that presents God as a kind of clockmaker who created the universe, then left it alone to run according to its own laws. We see God squabbling with, then abandoning, Lucifer, setting in motion the events of the Bible, but even in Eden he is surprisingly enigmatic.

[...]

And, as one of the thieves killed with Jesus prophesies, it may all be for naught; he conjures up a future in which "the religion founded -- haha --upon your existence will be held up to justify the slaughter of millions over hundreds and thousands of years, for the brutal sins of domination and exploitation, the lynchings, the massacres and genocide, the relentless militarism. Everything you stood for will be erased."

[...]

In any case, the company is an almost constant joy. Among the more striking performances, [...] Asia Kate Dillon is a compelling presence as Lucifer."

"Four dozen playwrights take four dozen spiritual positions, which allows bubbles of radical reimagining to emerge only to sink again beneath the waves. For instance, our very first playwright, Dael Orlandersmith, paints Lucifer (Asia Kate Dillon) as a sweetheart Cordelia type refusing to curry favor with an insecure God (Matthew Jeffers). The fallen Light bringer keeps popping up throughout, and yet while Lucifer makes a number of solid points—many vigorously antichurch—they're still costumed as a blood-smeared reptile. Does evil exist? Or does it only exist when it can dress super cool?"

"It begins with a scene in heaven where we meet the lavish Angel Chorus that will be with us for the duration of the play, and witness Lucifer’s expulsion from heaven, something like in Milton’s Paradise Lost.

[...]

We also meet the rebellious Lucifer in that first scene in heaven, played with dazzling cynicism by Asia Kate Dillon, and at the same time the angel Gabriel, played by Alice Allemano, who, obedient to God, in contrast to Lucifer, struggles valiantly trying to make sense out of God’s commands and following through on them.  These two, Lucifer and Gabriel, played by tall, striking people, fine actors who resemble one another, hold the vast array together like bookends.

The scenes in the Garden of Eden are delightful, played, appropriately in the nude, by Jaspal Binning as Adam and Alesandra Nahodil as Eve.  Throughout the play, Biblical episodes are interpreted by the many playwrights in non-canonical ways and the first of these is brilliant:  the knowledge the first couple gain through their disobedient eating of the apple is — how to tell a good joke and how to enjoy one!"

"Act I – The Fall begins with Creation and Lucifer’s fall from grace with God. Lucifer is played by a steady, radiant Asia Kate Dillon who reappears frequently to mix things up with earthlings and the rival angel, Gabriel, played by Alice Allemano makes goodness alluring. God is played by an extremely patient and multi-dimensional Matthew Jeffers whose sense of humor humanizes the Lord."

"As starting points, Dael Orlandersmith’s “Song of the Trimorph (Lucifer’s Lament)” and Liz Duffy Adams’s “Falling for You” are somewhat too abstract, particularly “Falling for You,” which has Lucifer wonder, “How can there be love in the absence of being?”"

"Starting with the Fall, we are introduced to the Angel Gabriel and the fallen angel Lucifer, played by two equally lissome and brilliant young actors, Alice Allemano and Asia Kate Dillon. They compete for God’s affections by using a chorus of singing punk angels."

"Asia Dillon as Lucifer brought the precise mixture of demonic delight and fragility necessary for such an adaptation: watching their performance was like looking at a raw cut in the bowels of the earth, brimming with fire and unimaginable sadness."

(no relevant quotes, but throwing in a brief pdf of a grantee project report that focuses on Engagement)

#edited out inaccurate misgenderings in favor of ''not tiresome'' over ''the Historical letter accuracy of the sources'' #which are all right there to peruse as originally written too; so #lucifer isn't evil??? 0 stars. long play too long. ''not that enthused'' reviews are always Worse Quality for limiting the info & taking up #plenty of space with [what info Is given is dedicated to supposedly bolstering some specific ''didn't like that'' view of the author's] #just the kind of stuff that'd annoy me as i hate read movie reviews for things i didn't see in the newspaper at like age 12 metacritically #and that of course [just one person] as the norm whether for ''formal'' reviews or not; liking it or not....not the ideal format. #the emergent info or reflections on the same elements / effects of the material that comes from Various writeups by ppl? mwah. #and of course many include fun little Details / noting something that others don't. it comes with lore #the mysteries #asia kate dillon #lucifer the mysteries #lucifer mysteries #gospel48 #unfortunately 2/3rds of the quoted articles on chase brock's page for the mysteries aren't online. cmon.... #i feel like there might be one article i found the other night that didn't crop up in this search....might be conflating tweets or smthing #can just update it if so anyways....also again No Idea what the longer brown hair vs shorter ''white'' / blond hair is about lol #it kept being extended & that article i think was written in later months; maybe they cut it partway through #more plausible anyways than that they grew their hair out that hard in just a few months. that they also had during rehearsals. shrug #yeah just revisited my History and no other articles that i found last night (morning); none relevant re: akd lucifer mentions anyways lol #also that that was dialogue akd was delivering as lucifer during the crucifixion...was it given to someone else? is lucifer (probably) #taking the place of one of the fellow crucifees & delivering it; and the author focused on who they're standing in for?