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.
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