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A history of freedom, J. Rufus Fears

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A history of freedom

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J. Rufus Fears

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Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma presents lectures concerning the history of freedom from ancient civilization to the twentieth century

pt. I: 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. II: 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. III: 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

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