This new course offers an opportunity to explore some of the unfinished business of  modern-day mental health care through an historical lens, from incarceration to health inequities to trauma to the role of drugs and biological thinking.  Mental health matters!  But history matters too, because understanding the forces that have brought us to our current moment arms us with insights that allow us to do better.  This course has also been built from the ground up, to take advantage of the potential of online learning.  The course may be online, but it is far from "virtual" -- on the contrary, the heart of this course will be the active real-time engagement it will offer all students who enroll.