Learn history
by seeing it.

Everything from human origins and the first cities through Greece, Rome, the medieval world and the Islamic empires, on to the age of exploration, the revolutions, and the twentieth century. There are also courses on method, on Africa, Asia and Latin America, and on the history of science, art and everyday life. You can type any history topic in your own words and get a lesson built for it.

Start with How We Know the Past. It is the course that makes every other one make sense: how a buried object gets dated by the layers above and below it, and how two people who watched the same night can write two different accounts of it. No background needed.

No. Dates appear when they carry weight, and their job is to hold a sequence together, not to be recited back. What you practise here is putting events in order and working out what actually followed from what, which is the part that stays with you.

History is change over time, and a paragraph flattens it. When you drag a border across a town that never moves, or pull one event out of a chain and watch which parts survive without it, the argument becomes something you can check for yourself instead of something you take on trust.

Yes. Ask for any topic at any depth, from a plain-English overview to close work on primary sources, and the lesson adapts. It works for exam prep, an essay you're stuck on, or going further than your syllabus goes.

From the standard scholarly record, and a lesson names its sources on screen rather than asserting a conclusion. Where a figure is an estimate or a range it is shown as one, with the uncertainty attached, because a date with no error bar is not a measurement.