GREAT COURSES VIA ZOOM
Tuesdays at 10:00am to Noon
To request an invitation for Series A, contact Kathy Jackson at blue.banshee42.@gmail.com
Mondays at 1:00pm to 3:00pm
To request an invitation for Series B contact Warren Karmol at w.karmol1@gmail.com
These classes are limited to 30 members.
Tuesdays at 10:00am to Noon
To request an invitation for Series A, contact Kathy Jackson at blue.banshee42.@gmail.com
Mondays at 1:00pm to 3:00pm
To request an invitation for Series B contact Warren Karmol at w.karmol1@gmail.com
These classes are limited to 30 members.
SERIES A
Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 1 Language Families of the World (2019) Professor John McWhorter Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
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SERIES B
Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 15 The Skeptic’s Guide to American History Facilitated by Jim Gradoville and Sandy Miller "Few people realize how much of what we think we know about American history is also mythical and mistaken. This course in 24 lectures by award-winning Professor Mark Stoler (Univ of Vermont) will examine some of these myths and why and how these myths arose and what historians now say about what really happened." TO PREVIEW A TRAILER FOR THE CLASS GO TO: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/the-skeptics-guide-to-american-history List of Lecture Topics LECTURE 1 Religious Toleration in Colonial America? . LECTURE 2 Neither American nor Revolutionary? LECTURE 3 The Constitution Did Not Create a Democracy LECTURE 4 Washington—Failures and Real Accomplishments LECTURE 5 Confusions about Jefferson and Hamilton LECTURE 6 Andrew Jackson—An Odd Symbol of Democracy LECTURE 7 The Second Great Awakening—Enduring Impacts LECTURE 8 Did Slavery Really Cause the Civil War? LECTURE 9 The Civil War’s Actual Turning Points LECTURE 10 The Myth of Laissez-Faire LECTURE 11 Misconceptions about the Original Populists LECTURE 12 Labor in America—A Strange History LECTURE 13 Myths about American Isolation and Empire LECTURE 14 Early Progressives Were Not Liberals LECTURE 15 Woodrow Wilson and the Rating of Presidents LECTURE 16 The Roaring Twenties Reconsidered LECTURE 17 Hoover and the Great Depression Revisited LECTURE 18 What Did Roosevelt’s New Deal Really Do? LECTURE 19 World War II Misconceptions and Myths LECTURE 20 Was the Cold War Inevitable? LECTURE 21 The Real Blunders of the Vietnam War LECTURE 22 Myths about American Wars LECTURE 23 Who Matters in American History? LECTURE 24 History Did Not Begin with Us |