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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 10-25-2021 to 10-25-2021Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 01:00 PM-03:00 PM - Central Daylight TimeInstructor: Joan MusbachTerm: OELocation: Zoom - St. Louis Oasis“Commodore” Vanderbilt, as his nickname implies, was a great promoter of steamship and railroad transportation in the pre-Civil War decades that feature the growth of both crucial forms of transportation. Called by some the creator of modern capitalism, Cornelius Vanderbilt founded a dynasty and created a vast fortune. In our favorite type of story,... read more -
FeaturedSessions: 1Class Date(s): 10-26-2021 to 10-26-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 01:00 PM-02:00 PM - Central Daylight TimeInstructor: Andrew Michael CoopermanTerm: OELocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisVlad the Impaler did not resemble the stereotypical Dracula character we think of today. He was a prince known for his cruelty and propensity to impale anyone who got in his way. In Romania, the real Dracula is known as a patriotic figure who was victorious against his enemies and who fought for his country. Look behind the myth at the... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 11-16-2021 to 11-16-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM - Central Daylight TimeInstructor: John GuentherTerm: OELocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisEero Saarinen, FAIA (1910-1961) was one of the most celebrated architects of his time. The son of Eliel Saarinen, internationally acclaimed architect, Eero was a leader of the second-generation modernist architects who advanced architectural form from new construction technologies and expanded modernism’s vocabulary beyond “the measly ABC.” His... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-13-2021 to 12-13-2021Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 01:00 PM-03:00 PM - Central Daylight TimeInstructor: Joan MusbachTerm: OELocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisUnlike Cornelius Vanderbilt and Andrew Carnegie, Junius Pierpont Morgan, known as Pierpont, did not rise from humble beginnings to the financial stratosphere. But like them, he was among the “Lords of Creation” as termed by the writer, Frederick Lewis Allen. Morgan took advantage of his prodigious talents and connections to become the premier leader in... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-14-2021 to 12-14-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM - Central Daylight TimeInstructor: John GuentherTerm: OELocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisWilliam Adair Bernoudy (1910-1988) was a leading advocate of Frank Lloyd Wright's modern organic architecture and a widely admired St. Louis architect. Born in St. Louis, Bernoudy first attended the Washington University in St. Louis School of Architecture before studying under Frank Lloyd Wright as one of forty charter Taliesin Fellowship apprentices... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-16-2021 to 12-16-2021Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 01:00 PM-02:00 PM - Central Daylight TimeInstructor: Andrew Michael CoopermanTerm: OELocation: Zoom - St. Louis OasisReviled by both Jews and Christians, King Herod of Judea nevertheless became known to history as “the Great.” Learn how this enigmatic figure overcame seemingly impossible odds to rule a Jewish state possessing a level of political stability, economic prosperity, architectural accomplishment and international significance and would not have again until... read more