In this sixteen-week military history course, students learn about every major engagement, from the first shots fired at Lexington to special operations in the modern day. Other examples include:
- A detailed analysis on the attack at Pearl Harbor.
- Animated maps of battles like Shiloh, The Alamo, The Little Big Horn, Normandy, and more.
- Personal accounts of raids and rescue missions in Afghanistan, Libya, Iran, and Panama.
Category: Military history
Protected: Weeks 13 and 14: The Middle East & International Terrorism
Week 13 In 1983, a pro-Iranian group calling itself the Islamic Jihad Organization (later known as Hezbollah) detonated a suicide bomb next to the U.S. embassy, killing 63 people. It wasn’t the first shot fired in the war with Islamic jihadists, but it was a harbinger of the broader war to come.
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Weeks 3 and 4: The American Civil War
Week 3 This week we focus on the pivotal event on which so much hinged: the Civil War. This is the intro to a nine-part documentary by Ken Burns, The Civil War. Age restricted due to images of dead soldiers on the battlefield: See the use of executive power when uncertainty is