Volume IV Video Lectures (18-month Membership)

About Course

Volume IV streaming Video Lectures offer students 84 pre-recorded lectures by Linda Lacour Hobar for every lesson of The Mystery of History Volume IV: “Wars of Independence to Modern Times.”Each lecture is approximately 10-25 minutes long; contains slides to bring history to life; and is filled with factual and inspirational material that goes beyond the Student Reader. (The lectures were not designed to replace the Student Reader, but to enhance it.)

If you’re looking for a learning platform with daily/weekly structure for an independent student (or one seeking to fulfill a high school credit), consider our Volume IV Self-paced Course!

Benefits:

Affordable, flexible access to award-winning history material
Suitable for multiple ages (though best suited for 13 and up)
Viewable through a streaming service to avoid download storage issues
18 month access (to provide families with stop and start flexibility)

Materials Needed:

The Mystery of History Volume IV (Student Reader and Companion Guide)
Students wanting to complete the mapping exercises found in the Companion Guide will need:
-Rand McNally’s “Historical Atlas of the World”
-Rand McNally’s “World Atlas—Know Geography”

Requirements:

Because these lectures are streaming from our website, we recommend a good internet connection for uninterrupted viewing.

With a biblical worldview of history, Linda Lacour Hobar, the author of The Mystery of History, will guide your student(s) through global events from 1708 to modern times with a look at composers, tyrants, revolutionaries, presidents, dictators, scientists, artists, and much more. Consider the value of studying the last three centuries that shape the news today!
If families follow the self-guided options in our Companion Guide, students will additionally be challenged with pretests, mapping exercises, timelines and/or memory cards, research projects, literature, quizzes, semester tests, and more to complement all learning styles.

Course Content

Week 1 | Semester I | Quarter 1

Lesson 1. Johann Sebastian Back and George Frideric Handel (1708, 1742)

16:52
Lesson 2. The Thirteen Colonies of North America (1732)

12:57
Lesson 3. The Great Awakening Under Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield (1734–1760)

13:15

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Week 1 | Semester I | Quarter 1

Lesson 1. Johann Sebastian Back and George Frideric Handel (1708, 1742)

Lesson 2. The Thirteen Colonies of North America (1732)

Lesson 3. The Great Awakening Under Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield (1734–1760)

Week 2

Lesson 4. Frederick II and the Seven Years’ War (1740, 1756–1763)

Lesson 5. Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Leaders of the Enlightenment (1750, 1762)

Lesson 6. Benjamin Franklin (1752)

Week 3

Lesson 7. The French and Indian War (1754–1763)

Lesson 8. Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia (1762)

Lesson 9. The American Revolution: Part 1 (1765–1776)

Week 4

Lesson 10. The American Revolution: Part 2 (1776–1783)

Lesson 11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1781)

Lesson 12. The French Revolution (1789–1799)

Week 5

Lesson 13. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte (1799)

Lesson 14. The Louisiana Purchase and Expeditions of Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike (1803, 1804, 1806)

Lesson 15. William Wilberforce (1807)

Week 6

Lesson 16. Ludwig van Beethoven (1808)

Lesson 17. The Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821)

Lesson 18. The War of 1812 (1812–1814)

Week 7

Lesson 19. The Fall of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815)

Lesson 20. Simón Bolivar: Liberator of South America (1820)

Lesson 21. The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829)

Week 8 | Quarter 2

Lesson 22. Brazil Emerges from a Colony to an Empire (1822)

Lesson 23. The Trail of Tears (1830)

Lesson 24. George Müller (1834)

Week 9

Lesson 25. The Fall of the Alamo and the Texas War of Independence (1835–1836)

Lesson 26. David Livingstone and the Exploration of Africa (1841)

Lesson 27. Karl Marx and The Communist Manifesto (1848)

Week 10

Lesson 28. Famous American Abolitionists: Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglas (Early to Mid-1800s)

Lesson 29. Hudson Taylor and the Taiping Rebellion (March 1854)

Lesson 30. Florence Nightingale: “Lady with the Lamp” (October 1854)

Week 11

Lesson 31. The Eureka Rebellion (December 1854)

Lesson 32. Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution (1859)

Lesson 33. The Continuing Controversy Over the Theory of Evolution (No Date)

Week 12

Lesson 34. The French Occupation of Cambodia (1860, 1863–1953)

Lesson 35. The War Between the States: Part I (1861–1862)

Lesson 36. The War Between the States: Part 2 (1863–1865)

Week 13

Lesson 37. The French Rule of Mexico Under Maximilian and Carlota (1863–1867)

Lesson 38. The Dominion of Canada (July 1, 1867)

Lesson 39. The Emperor Meiji of Japan (1868)

Week 14

Lesson 40. The Worldwide Fight for Women’s Suffrage (19th and 20th Centuries)

Lesson 41. The Impressionists: Monet, Degas, Renoir, and Cassatt (1874)

Lesson 42. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) and Chief Joseph (1876, 1877)

Week 15 | Semester II | Quarter 3

Lesson 43. Wilbur and Orville Wright Take Flight! (1903)

Lesson 44. Helen Keller (1904)

Lesson 45. Albert Einstein (1905)

Week 16

Lesson 46. Excursions to the South Pole (1911–1912, 1915–1916)

Lesson 47. World War I: Part 1 (1914–1916)

Lesson 48. World War I: Part 2 (1917–1918)

Week 17

Lesson 49. Vladimir Lenin Forms the U.S.S.R. (1922)

Lesson 50. The Irish Civil War (1922–1924)

Lesson 51. Benito Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism (1922)

Week 18

Lesson 52. Joseph Stalin: “Man of Steel” (1924)

Lesson 53. The Great Depression (1929)

Lesson 54. Mohandas K. Gandhi (1930)

Week 19

Lesson 55. The Rise of Adolf Hitler (1933)

Lesson 56. The Holocaust: From Afar (1933–1945)

Lesson 57. The Holocaust: Up Close (1933–1945)

Week 20