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Your Great Courses experience is getting even better!

We’ve brought The Great Courses and The Great Courses Plus together into one streamlined platform. Here are some highlights of what to expect:

* All your learning in one place
Browse, purchase (on the web), subscribe, and stream—all with one login on thegreatcoursesplus.com and The Great Courses Plus apps.

* Same trusted content and instructors
The library you know and love is here to stay, with new courses released each month.

* Expanded app experience
Stream your courses using the latest version of The Great Courses Plus app—now available on Roku, FireTV, and Apple TV.

* No subscription required!
Buy and stream individual courses, and enjoy free lectures from dozens of new and featured courses.

For full details on this new experience, visit thegreatcoursesplus.com/whatsnew.

The Great Courses Journeys is a truly unique travel experience—one where the joy of travel meets the thrill of learning. Our 20+ departures match amazing destinations with world-class experts and the deep library of The Great Courses content.

Just as we have crafted exceptional educational content for more than 35 years, we have designed our journeys to go beyond the typical educational tour.

Each of our itineraries is meticulously crafted with brilliant scholars and experts to create a travel experience that is as intellectually fulfilling as it is culturally immersive. Learn more and reserve your spot at https://www.thegreatcoursesjourneys.com/?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=Web&utm_campaign=201.

Announcing the 2025 lineup of travel opportunities with The Great Courses Journeys! Take a music history tour of Vienna or explore England's many literary sights, led by a trusted expert from The Great Courses.

The Waltz in Wien: The Second Viennese School with Dr. Robert Greenberg

Hallowed Ground: Revisiting WWI France with David R. Stone

Enchanted England with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman

The Spirit of Cuba: from Colonial Trinidad to Havana's Future with Joyce E. Salisbury

Great British Mysteries with Maureen Corrigan

Where will your curiosity take you? Visit www.thegreatcoursesjourneys.com to reserve your place on one of these incredible, small-group tours.

The Knights Templar were assembled for practical reasons—protecting pilgrims, and even banking. But as their numbers grew, so did their notoriety.

Now, they're the stuff of legend. But what really happened to the Templars—and their treasure?

Explore their fascinating, mysterious history with The Real History of Secret Socities, streaming on The Great Courses Plus. www.thegreatcoursesplus.com

We may not be a pharaoh, but we think our new name deserves some special attention, too!

Starting on June 4, the streaming service known as Wondrium will transform back into The Great Courses Plus.

The service will still have the award-winning professors and courses you know and love, plus new releases and never-before-streamed classics from The Great Courses vault every month.

On the evening of Sunday, March 12, 1933, only eight days after his swearing in as the 32nd president of the United States, Roosevelt took to the airwaves for the first time. The nation was in the throes of its worst economic depression in history, and Roosevelt had to reassure the nation. Radio was the means to do so.

That broadcast was the first of 31 informal “fireside chats” that Roosevelt would deliver through a bevy of microphones from different stations and networks to an audience of millions of Americans brought together by the radio.

Relive more moments in US history with Experiencing America: A Smithsonian Tour through American History. Stream now on Wondrium. https://www.wondrium.com/experiencing-america-a-smithsonian-tour-through-american-history

Did you know that we don't actually observe a leap year every four years? The Gregorian calendar uses some interesting rules to keep the calendar in sync with Earth's orbit around the sun.

This system is accurate to roughly 2.6 seconds per year—so there may be an extra leap day needed in the year 4000!

Learn more about quirks of time and space with in-depth physics courses on Wondrium. https://www.wondrium.com/mysteries-of-modern-physics-time