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Ultimate History Lesson Hour 1, minutes 1 -15 (approx.):
(Person) Plato (on Wikipedia)
(Person) Socrates (on Wikipedia)
(Book) "The Republic" by Plato
(Book) "The Laws" by Plato
(Person) Charles Darwin (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “The Descent of Man” by Charles Darwin (1871)
(Book) “On The Origin of Species” / “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life” by Charles Darwin (1859):
(Person) Thomas Malthus (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “An Essay on the Principle of Population” by Thomas Malthus (Darwin read for “amusement” in 1838)
(Book) Anglican Book of Common Prayer (on Wikipedia)
(Artifact) Anglican Homily of Obedience (on Wikipedia)
(Group) Darwin-Wedgewood family (on Wikipedia)
(Person) Francis Galton (on Wikipedia)
(Concept) Eugenics (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “War Against The Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race” by Edwin Black (2003)
(Book) “Preparing for Power: America’s Elite Boarding Schools” by Cookson & Persell (1987)
(Group) Independent School League (on Wikipedia)
(Article) “America’s Best Prep Schools” (Forbes Magazine article; April 2010)
(Event) “Fitter Family Competition” + Eugenics (on Wikipedia)
(Person) Wilhelm Wundt (on Wikipedia)
Roundtable Discussion of minutes 1-15:
(Person) R. Buckminster Fuller
(Book) “Grunch of Giants” by R. Buckminster Fuller (1984) (read online via Buckminster Fuller Institute)
(Book) “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth” by R. Buckminster Fuller 
(Book) “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”; Chapter 3, Comprehensively Commanded Automation - Thomas Malthus reference)
(Book) “Buckminster Fuller’s Universe: His Life and Work” by L. Steven Sieden (2000)
(Video) “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Adam Curtis (BBC documentary)
(Person) Wilhelm Wundt (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
(Book)“The Leipzig Connection: Basics in Education” by Paolo Lionni (1993)
Hour 1, minutes 15 -30 (approx.)
(Concept) Doctor of Philosophy (on Wikipedia)
(Person) Edward Everett (First American PhD; on Wikipedia)
(Concept) Academic Tenure (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith (1776)
(Person) William Playfair (on Wikipedia)
(Person) Edward Bernays (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “Propaganda” by Edward Bernays (1928)
(Person) Ivy Lee  + Nazi + I.G. Farben (on Wikipedia)
(Book) “Wall Street and The Rise of Hitler” by Antony C. Sutton (1976)
(Book) “The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farb