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.
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SERIES A
Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 1
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Language Families of the World (2019)
Professor John McWhorter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
​ Columbia University

1. Why Are There So Many Languages?
2. The First Family Discovered: Indo-European
3. Indo-European Languages in Europe
4. Indo-European Languages in Asia
5. The Click Languages                                              
6. Niger-Congo: Largest Family in Africa I
7. Niger-Congo: Largest Family in Africa II
8. Languages of the Fertile Crescent and Beyond I
9. Languages of the Fertile Crescent and Beyond II
10. Nilo-Saharan: Africa’s Hardest Languages?                                                                                                                        
11. Is the Indo-European Family Alone in Europe?
12. How to Identify a Language Family
13. What Is a Caucasian Language?
14. Indian Languages That Aren’t Indo-European
15. Languages of the Silk Road and Beyond
16. Japanese and Korean: Alike yet Unrelated
17. The Languages We Call Chinese
18. Chinese’s Family Circle: Sino-Tibetan
19. Southeast Asian Languages: The Sinosphere
20. Languages of the South Seas I                                                                                                                                               
21. Languages of the South Seas II
22. Siberia and Beyond: Language Isolates
23. Creole Languages
24. Why Are There So Many Languages in New Guinea?
25. The Languages of Australia I                          
26. The Languages of Australia II
27. The Original American Languages I
28. The Original American Languages II
29. The Original American Languages III.
30. The Original American Languages IV                                                                                                                                   
31. Languages Caught between Families
32. How Far Back Can We Trace Languages?
33. What Do Genes Say about Language Families?
34. Language Families and Writing Systems

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​