John Green hosts and produces the Crash Course YouTube series on world history. He speaks fast, but you can always play it again.

Enlightenment ideas of equality and personal rights developed within the global context of trans-Atlantic slavery. Get an overview from Crash Course: The Atlantic Slave Trade.

Topic I: Age of Revolution

• Crash Course: Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution
• Crash Course: The French Revolution
• Crash Course: Latin American Revolutions
• Crash Course: Haitian Revolutions

Topic II: Industrial Revolution

• Crash Course: Coal, Steam, and the Industrial Revolution

Topic III: Social and Economic Thought in Early Industrial Society

•  Crash Course: Capitalism and Socialism

Topic IV: Nationalism

• Crash Course: Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism 

Topic V: Imperialism

•  Crash Course: Imperialism

Topic VII: World War I

•  Crash Course: World War I

Topic IX: World War II

•  Crash Course: World War II

Topic X: The Cold War

•  Crash Course: The Cold War

Topic XI: The End of Empire in Asia and the Middle East

•  Crash Course: Communist, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions

Topic XII: Liberation and Dependency in Africa and Latin America

• Crash Couse: Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant