Part 1. Disc 1. lecture 1. History as the second question ; lecture 2. Homer and Herodotus ; lecture 3. Marching with Xenophon ; lecture 4. The unhappy Thucydides ; lecture 5. Men of mixed motives : Polybius and Sallust ; lecture 6. The grandeur that was Livy
Disc 2. lecture 7. Tacitus, chronicler of chaos ; lecture 8. The Christian claim to continuity ; lecture 9. Augustine's City : struggle for the future ; lecture 10. Faith and the end of time ; lecture 11. The birth of criticism ; lecture 12. The Reformation : the disruption of history.
part 2. Disc 3. lecture 13. The Reformation : continuity or apocalypse? ; lecture 14. Enlightening history ; lecture 15. The rise and triumph of Edward Gibbon ; lecture 16. History as science : Kant, Ranke, and Comte ; lecture 17. The Whig interpretation of history ; lecture 18. Romantic history
Disc 4. lecture 19. The apocalypse of Karl Marx
lecture 20. Culture and history
lecture 21. Civilization as history
lecture 22. The American history lesson
lecture 23. Closing the frontier
lecture 24. The value of history.
