Course curriculum

  • 1

    Lecture 0

  • 2

    Lecture 1

    • The Northeast Blackout of 1965 + Pop Culture Icons
  • 3

    Lecture 2

    • Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse + Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
  • 4

    Lecture 3

    • The Watertown Paper Mill Explosion + Moby Dick
  • 5

    Lecture 4

    • The Sultana Explosion + Aesop's The Tortoise and the Hare + Henry Ford
  • 6

    Lecture 5

    • The Boston Molasses Flood + The Maginot Line
  • 7

    Lecture 6

    • The Hindenburg + Gollum
  • 8

    Chapter 7

    • The Space Shuttle Columbia + Facebook Home
  • 9

    Chapter 8

    • The The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse + The Frost-Nixon Interviews
  • 10

    Chapter 9

    • Chernobyl + Hamlet
  • 11

    Chapter 10

    • The R101 Crash + The Count of Monte Cristo
  • 12

    Chapter 11

    • The RMS Titanic + "Dewey defeats Truman"
  • 13

    Chapter 12

    • Apollo 13 + Thomas Edison
  • 14

    Chapter 13

    • The Mars Orbiter + Betamax