START DATE: WHENEVER.
Begin a course at any time
Our fully virtual courses include the built-in guidance and support of an in-person classroom.
TIME: IT'S UP TO YOU.
Pace yourself
Though courses are designed to be completed in 4-6 months, you can pace yourself using our step-by-step guidance and detailed instructions.
LEVEL: YOUR CHOICE.
Choose your track
Take the course for high school credit, or take the advanced track to get ready to ace college credit exams like the AP and CLEP tests.
Earn credit in multiple subjects
Every course is interdisciplinary—that means you can earn supplementary credits along the way, in American literature, rhetoric and logic, historical methods, college writing, and more. See below for a detailed breakdown of each course.
Bring the setting to life
From the Appalachians to the Gobi, from the Andean highlands to the swamps of Louisiana, bring the historical setting to life with the NP's on-location mini-lectures.
Take notes with confidence
Take notes with focus and insight using our daily guided notes handouts, customized to the last detail in every session.
Learn from your mistakes
Every session ends in a ten-question quiz, and every answer comes with feedback, so you always know what to study in order to ace the quiz on your next attempt.
Listen as you read
Listen to a professional audio recording of the NP reading every session aloud. Follow along in the text for improved comprehension.
Master the vocabulary
The key vocabulary from every session is identified and defined for you. Master every term using one of three built-in review options.
Be part of a community
Join a community of fellow online learners to ask questions, form study groups, chat with the NP, and access a wealth of learning supplements.
Get classroom-like support
Guided notes and video guidance created by a high school history teacher make the NP's college-level courses accessible to a teenage audience.
Stack your transcript
Take a history class that gives you more than history credit; learn how to research and write an essay, study literature, practice reason and sound logic, and more--all in one place.
Judge sources like a pro
Learn to evaluate Twitter and The New York Times, stump speeches and journal entries, political cartoons and satirical poems, wood carvings and advertisements; in short, learn the full scope of what's called "historical literacy."
Integrate every key term
Use the NP's unique "structure method" to connect every vocabulary term to every other vocabulary term--the best way to master and retain lots of content.
Become manipulation-proof
Learn to discern between competing claims from sources with different goals and biases.
Study flexibly
Utilize every support the course offers, or choose which supports help you meet your specific goals. Study every session, or adapt the content to meet your interests and constraints.
Reviewers and students alike love our courses.
Give us two years and we'll give your high schooler a college-level education in American history.
Learn more about credits, timing, requirements, and more on our FAQ page, or check out the full scope of our American history program below.
US1: To Begin the World Over Again
- From the pre-Columbian Americas to the ratification of the Constitution (pre-15th century to 1790s)
- 10 units of about 5 sessions each (4 content sessions, 1 document-based lesson per unit)
- Appr. 70-90 working days (at Standard or AP levels)
- Appr. 14-23 weeks (at 3x or 5x p/wk)
- .5 credits U.S. History when taken as a one semester course in isolation (not paired with another Nomadic course)
- Available in full now
US2: The Noise of Democracy
- From Washington's presidency to the end of Reconstruction (1790 to 1877)
- 10 units of about 5 sessions each (4 content sessions, 1 document-based lesson per unit)
- Appr. 70-90 working days (at Standard or AP levels)
- Appr. 14-23 weeks (at 3x or 5x p/wk)
- Combined with US1: 1 credit U.S. History; .5 credits historical methods; .5 credits college writing; prep for U.S. CLEP 1
- Units 1-3 available now, units 4-10 being released and made available in real time; start the course now, finish along with us!
US3: Monsters to Destroy
- From Custer and Crazy Horse to Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1877 to 1945)
- 10 units of about 5 sessions each (4 content sessions, 1 document-based lesson per unit)
- Appr. 70-90 working days (at Standard or AP levels)
- Appr. 14-23 weeks (at 3x or 5x p/wk)
- .5 credits U.S. History when taken as a one semester course in isolation (not paired with another Nomadic course)
- Available fall 2022
US4: A Great Consolidation
- From the Cold War to the War on Terror (1945 to near the present)
- 10 units of about 5 sessions each (4 content sessions, 1 document-based lesson per unit)
- Appr. 70-90 working days (at Standard or AP levels)
- Appr. 14-23 weeks (at 3x or 5x p/wk)
- When combined with US3: 1 credit U.S. History; .5 credits rhetoric and logic; .5 credits American Literature; prep for U.S. CLEP 2
- When combined with US1-3: prep for AP U.S. History
- Available fall 2023
Looking for another program?
We've got you covered—our World History program is on the way. The Nomadic Professor will spend most of 2022 and all of 2023 overseas (in Africa, Asia, and Europe) filming on-location for these four courses.
Oh, and he's learning to paramotor...so that he can lecture from the air! More on this development in early 2022.
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Dr. W. Kesler Jackson
[aka "The Nomadic Professor"]
Take a course from one of YouTube's most innovative professors. To go along with graduate degrees from Penn State (MA Humanities) and Syracuse (PhD History), plus 150+ university-level classes (and counting) taught, he's lived on five continents, run halfway across America, learned five languages, traveled as a nomad with his family across 30+ countries...and he's just getting started. Next up: para-lecturing over Africa?
Want to keep up with what's coming? Follow the NP blog.
Nate Noorlander
[specialties: English, history, philosophy]
Receive comprehensive guidance through the NP's courses from high school teacher Nate Noorlander. Nate's experience comes from the U.S. and China, where he's taught middle school history and English, high school history and English, IB History, AS History, IGCSE History and Global Perspectives, IB English, and Theory of Knowledge.
