The Real History of Secret Societies
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
<p>Delve into the history and meaning of secret societies, exploring the most famous and infamous underground groups, their origins, and their members in this course, created in partnership with HISTORY®.</p>
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Small-Town Secrets
- 02: Secret Societies: The Underworld of History
- 03: The Knights Templar
- 04: Masonic Revolutions in America and France
- 05: Bolsheviks, Masons, and Russian Revolution
- 06: Adolf Hitler and the Thule Society
- 07: Synarchy, Schemers, and Vichy France
- 08: Ancient Mystery Cults
- 09: The Islamic Assassins
- 10: The Medieval Cathars
- 11: The Rosicrucians
- 12: The Illuminati
- 13: The Freemasons
- 14: Ireland’s Secret War for Independence
- 15: Debunking the Elders of Zion
- 16: Mafia! Criminal Secret Societies
- 17: Aleister Crowley, Occultism, and Espionage
- 18: Red Octopus: The Communist International
- 19: Japan’s Black and Green Dragons
- 20: Italy’s Secret Government: The P2 Lodge
- 21: From the KKK to the Black Shriners
- 22: Bohemian Grove, Bilderbergers, and Elites
- 23: Secret Societies for Aging Swingers
- 24: Terrorism’s Long Trail of Secret Cells
- 25: Secret Societies: The Never Ending Story
- 26: UFOs and the Elusive George Hunt Williamson
Taught by
Richard B. Spence
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