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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 03-09-2021 to 03-11-2021Day(s) of the week: Tuesday, ThurdsdayTime: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM -Central Standard TimeInstructor: Joan MusbachTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - St. Louis OasisThe World War II internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans is variously described as wartime necessity, hysteria, economic exploitation, fascist duplication, and unbridled racial prejudice. The evacuation from the west coast and internment inland was authorized by Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt in February, 1942. In 1943 the U.... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-10-2021 to 03-10-2021Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 01:00 PM-02:15 PM -Central Standard TimeInstructor: Michael Cude, Ph.D., Schreiner UniversityTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Antonio OasisFrom its start as a series of colonies, the United States has seen multitudes of people migrate to its shores. Accordingly, Americans came to identify in part as a nation of immigrants. This course will overview the history of U. S. immigration from the 18th century to the present, outlining the peak periods and how they've changed over time, as well as... read more -
Sessions: 4Class Date(s): 03-10-2021 to 03-31-2021Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 09:00 AM-11:00 PM -Central Standard TimeInstructor: Tom Henry, M.S.Term: 2020-2Location: Zoom - Syracuse OasisAs opposition to the war continued to grow, the Nixon administration continued to look for a path to “peace with honor.” Until that agreement was reached, fighting persisted, often growing in intensity as the slow withdrawal of US troops continued. We will look at the process and problems of US disengagement through the early 1970s. We will also begin... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-12-2021 to 03-12-2021Day(s) of the week: FridayTime: 12:00 PM-01:30 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Dan ShermanTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisPi is one of the best-known and most-studied numbers in all of mathematics. Although first measured by geometers in ancient times, it permeates all branches of mathematics and is used to test computers as they compute pi's value to trillions of digits. This class will review some of the surprising places pi shows up as a way of introducing complex... read more -
Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 03-15-2021 to 03-22-2021Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM -Central Standard TimeInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - Rochester OasisThe original American September 11th. This amost forgotten battle saw the largest deployment of American troops during the Revolutionary War. This site is still in the same condition today as it was over 200 years ago. It's a study in the struggle the American Army had to overcome to defeat the British Empire and the first battle to fly the US flag. ... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-18-2021 to 03-18-2021Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:30 PM -Central Standard TimeInstructor: Marcia Chatelain, Professor, History and African American Studies, Georgetown UniversityTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisOur homes are deeply personal to all of us; our homes are also quite political. Housing policy provides one the clearest lenses into how race is lived in America, and examining the histories of federal housing and lending policies, the creation of the suburbs, and the underfunding of public housing can teach us volumes about a problem we all live with... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-30-2021 to 03-30-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 03:00 PM-04:30 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Blaine Davies, MATerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisOur first “feminist” first lady was also one of our most active and influential first ladies. While her paralyzed husband led our country through the Great Depression and World War II, Eleanor traveled throughout the country and the world bringing back to the White House a perspective that Franklin Roosevelt valued, appreciated and often... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-30-2021 to 03-30-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 01:00 PM-02:00 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Andrew Michael CoopermanTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - St. Louis OasisThe Roman Empire did not fall in 476 AD. It lived on in the eastern Mediterranean as what historians call Byzantium until 1453. Although based in modern Greece and Turkey, the people of this Greek-speaking Christian empire referred to themselves as Romioi – Romans. This presentation will tour the lands, peoples, society and government of this medieval... read more -
Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 04-05-2021 to 04-12-2021Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM -Central Standard TimeInstructor: David WoodruffTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - Rochester OasisCalled the "Crime of the Century," Charles "Lucky Lindy's" firstborn son mysteriously disappeared in 1932, when kidnapping in the US had reached epic proportions. Yet for a crime so enormous as the Lindbergh kidnapping no progress was made in finding a suspect for almost two and a half years. Even today's criminal experts have a hard time agreeing on... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-07-2021 to 04-07-2021Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 01:30 PM-03:00 PM -Central Standard TimeInstructor: Timothy C. GrahamTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - Albuquerque OasisChartres Cathedral, with its soaring architecture and 175 stained glass windows, inspires all who enter it and represents a high point of human achievement. In this presentation we learn about the sacred history of Chartres before focusing on the different elements of the building and the process of its construction between 1130 and 1230. We take a close... read more