Thursday, April 28, 2011

History Stuff below the fold

I added Professor Carter's Prehistory podcast at links.

A lot better than her MMW 1, which tended to be a bit diffuse (the MMW courses are basic history overview courses for freshmen and tends to be a bit spoon-fed).

The bad news: Professor Miano's podcasts on Rome were removed from UCSD site last week, but his old one on Greece is still there, as is his Egyptian history... He is good, but for classics, not as good as the lectures from Professor Pafford from Berkeley and Santa Clara.

a lot of these are on ItunesU...

Of course, the best podcast about Rome is Mike Duncan's Rome History podcast...these things overlap, but actually all of them teach from a different point of view and emphasize different things.

Another great podcast option is at Yale: I am also listening to the Yale Old testament podcast...Kagan on Greece is there too. My main complaint is that if you get an interruption in download, it stops and you have to redownload. Also, the lectures tend to be long, so often I get interrupted and never get around to hearing the end of them.

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