The Nomadic Professor Courses

We’re excited to share that The Nomadic Professor is soon releasing World History II, a brand-new online course designed for homeschool and hybrid students in grades 10–12.

World History II picks up where early world history leaves off, guiding students from the early modern period through the modern world. Instead of memorizing disconnected facts, students learn to think historically—analyzing primary sources, evaluating competing perspectives, and understanding how past events shape today’s global conversations.

Visit https://nomadicprofessor.com/world-history-overview/ to enroll.

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Designed to bring history to life for high school students, our courses are packed with on-location videos, taking students around the globe to learn history where it happened. A subscription to The Nomadic Professor grants immediate access to the entirety of our ever-expanding course catalogue:

• American History Part 1: To Begin the World Over Again (Pre-Columbian America to the ratification of the Constitution)
• American History Part 2: The Noise of Democracy (The ratification of the Constitution to the end of Reconstruction)
• American History Part 3: Monsters to Destroy (The 1880s through the beginning of WWII)
• American History Part 4: A Great Consolidation (WWII through the Cold War and the War on Terror)
• Media Literacy: Learn to Evaluate the Sources Competing for Your Attention (A course on catching up to the present)
• World History Part 1: The Thousand Names of God (4000 BC – 1300 AD)
• World History Part 2: From a Far Country (1300 AD – near the present; coming winter 2026)
• The History of Alaska: America's Last Frontier? (From the early native peoples to the present)
• Pirates: A Swashbuckling History of the Americas in the Age of Sail (An early modern story)

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We're excited to announce that The Nomadic Professor will be on-location in the Philippines in Spring 2026, there to film videos to add to our World 1/2 and US 3/4 courses, which explore the complex and often overlooked legacy of Philippine history.

Sections of our courses explore the rich and complex history of the Philippines—from precolonial societies and the arrival of foreign powers to the struggles for independence and the shaping of the modern nation. Our courses offer a critical look at key events, figures, and movements that have defined the Filipino identity, fostering a deeper understanding of their relevance today.

We’re at the UEFA Education Fair today 10/18 from 10am-2pm at Juan Diego Catholic High School in Draper, UT. Come visit with us and the many other awesome education vendors! We’d love to talk with you about our growing catalogue of American History, World History, History of Pirates, Media Literacy, and History of Alaska!

On this day, we remember a voyage that reshaped the world.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic, unknowingly opening the door to centuries of exploration, exchange, conflict, and transformation between the Old and New Worlds.

Our American History Part 1 course begins before Columbus — exploring the peoples and cultures of pre-Columbian America — and follows the unfolding story all the way to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Along the way, we examine Columbus’s voyage in context, tracing its impact through colonization, revolution, and the birth of a nation.

🧭 Ready to dive deeper into the real story?
Start exploring with The Nomadic Professor — where history comes alive with on-location videos, primary sources, and a global perspective.

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In History Today — On August 28, 1963, crowds of up to a quarter of a million people crowded beneath the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” Organized by a range of civil rights groups, unions and religious organizations to fight discrimination, the event was headlined by a powerful address from the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The iconic moment came just four months after King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, eight years to the day from the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till, and a hundred years on from Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

In American History Part 4: A Great Consolidation, the NP recounts the “I Have a Dream” speech at length, including the following series of admonitions:

“‘Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

“‘And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

“‘I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’

“‘I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

“‘I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

“‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

“‘I have a dream today!’”

This image was captured 80 years ago today over Japan from the cockpit of the Enola Gay, returning to base after the completion of its mission on 6 August, 1945: to unleash an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

Occurring just weeks after the birth of the atomic age, the event would spell the end of the war.

In the days leading up to the blast that killed upwards of 70,000 people almost at once, the Potsdam Declaration had demanded the unconditional surrender of Japan.

But as the NP explains (in American History Part 4):

“Eleven days passed—with no Japanese reply.

“‘If they do not now accept our terms,’ threatened President Truman, in a speech announcing America’s use of the bomb over Hiroshima, ‘they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.’

“Two days after Hiroshima, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. Stalin’s armies now invaded Manchuria; over the next few months, millions of Japanese living in the region would flee back to Japan. The day after the Soviet declaration, the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb over Nagasaki.

“Almost a week later, on 15 August, Emperor Hirohito of Japan addressed the Japanese public over the radio to announce his country’s unconditional surrender. By the end of the month, General Douglas MacArthur had landed at Atsugi Air Base in Kanagawa, Japan, to oversee the Allied occupation of the country. Two days later, on 2 September, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Hirohito’s Foreign Minister, officially signed an instrument of surrender in Tokyo Bay, aboard the USS Missouri. Scores of U.S. ships now steamed into the harbor, carrying some 13,000 occupation troops.

“World War II—the bloodiest war in human history—had ended.”

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We're just weeks away from the release of World History 1 on September 1, 2025! The discounted pre-sale will end on August 31st at 11:59.

"World 1 -The Thousand Names of God", is a survey of global history from the Paleolithic era to the shock of the Mongol conquests.

Purchase or subscribe now to embark on your own journey through time with The Nomadic Professor. You won't be disappointed! It's History like you've never experienced.

Visit https://nomadicprofessor.com/world-history-overview/ to enroll.

On this day in 1804, the most infamous duel in American history took place. Meeting on a calm summer morning beneath the Palisades of New Jersey, the duelists were none other than the Founding Father and Federalist Alexander Hamilton, America’s first Treasury Secretary; and the still-sitting Vice President Aaron Burr. Burr was still freshly smarting from a landslide loss in New York’s gubernatorial race.

The two had been rivals for years, but this latest embarrassment for Burr brought tensions to a boiling point. Angered at Hamilton’s criticism during the campaign and alleged smears on his honor, Burr instigated the duel, issuing the challenge. Thanks to the prevailing honor culture of the era, Hamilton felt compelled to accept.

They met on the very same grounds where Hamilton’s son had died in a duel just three years before. Having attempted to set his affairs in order in the hours prior to the event, Hamilton arrived well aware of the crippling debts he’d leave to his wife Eliza and their seven children.

It was neither’s first duel, but would be Hamilton’s last.

He fired into the air—possibly deliberately missing—while Burr aimed true, puncturing above Hamilton’s right hip and shattering his spine. Hamilton died the next day.

Burr fled south, his political career declared to be equally dead. But as the NP recounts in American History Part 2: The Noise of Democracy, this was far from the end of the line for Aaron Burr.

In History Today: May 10, 1869 | With the hammering of a last, ceremonial spike, the United States’ east and west coasts were suddenly linked by rail. The historic meeting point of the eastward-expanding Union Pacific and the westward-expanding Central Pacific took place at Promontory Summit, Utah, at an event that drew several hundred attendees. But thanks to a telegraph transmission, simultaneous celebrations broke out nationwide.

All at once, the transcontinental railroad had opened a vast expanse of America to a wave of new settlement. But as The Nomadic Professor explains in “The Noise of Democracy” (Part 2 of the American History series), the movement of settlers was only half of the challenge posed to the nomadic and semi-nomadic natives:

“The other half revolved around the Plains people’s dependence on the bison (or “buffalo”). These they hunted as their chief food source—and as the principal source of material for their shoes and clothing, their blankets, their utensils, and even their teepee dwellings. Groups like the Cheyenne, the Lakota, and the Comanche had once followed the massive bison herds on horseback with the seasons, slaughtering a few when necessary. But when the Union Pacific constructed its railroad across the Great Plains, it (1) effectively split the bison population in two, with a smaller herd to the north of the line and a larger herd to the railroad’s south, then (2) facilitated the speedy arrival of eastern hunters eager to cash in on a new American fad: the buffalo robe. So voracious was the eastern demand for bison skins that by the mid-1870s, virtually the entire southern herd was dead. The northern herd outlived its cousins by only a few years. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (and the Army, too) granted tacit approval of these developments, if only to finally convince the Plains peoples to give up their nomadic—and martial—ways in favor of a more “civilized,” agricultural lifestyle.”