Rosenstock-Huessy calls Christ the turning point of history: the culmination of the yearnings and the redemption of the achievements of the ancient world. He declares that the Christian era exists. The four ages of the ancient world are succeeded by the millennia of the Christian era in which one God over many gods has been established, one world out of many worlds has been created, and one society out of the many societies is yet to be created. The course concentrates on the histories of tribes, astral empires, the Greeks, and the Jews. In Universal History 1957, the themes include the social inheritance of acquired characteristics, the sociology of historical change, and the generational shift of each new way of life. Individual lectures feature war and the tribes, the cost of settlement, fatherhood and Israel, the difference between "people" and "public," and the definition of saints. Lecture 3 contains a good presentation of the purpose of Universal History, and its importance in creating the future. Lecture 11 has a vintage Rosenstock-Huessy presentation of speech. Twenty-nine 1-hour lectures. Universal History - 1967 explores many of Rosenstock-Huessy’s issues, beyond the outline of Universal History itself. Examples would be speech and naming, and Christianity as the center of history and ethics. The series also covers creativity, the development of human culture, how we become enslaved by certain types of thinking, and the development of one’s soul. Twenty 1-hour lectures.