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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-19-2024 to 03-19-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 09:30 AM-11:00 AM Central TimeInstructor: David B Lindauer, Lt. Colonel (Ret.), US Army Signal CorpsTerm: OELocation: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisThe chronicle of World War II is filled with many amazing stories. Probably none of these tales of heroism had such historic and strategic significance as the abrupt and surprising crossing of the Rhine River at the German town of Remagen on March 7, 1945, by a small party of GIs. The class will look at both the strategic setting for the Rhine crossing as... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-20-2024 to 03-20-2024Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:15 PM Central TimeInstructor: Brian Rose, Professor (ret.), Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham UniversityTerm: OELocation: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisFor more than 125 years, filmmakers have been drawn to the dynamic vitality of New York City. Its dramatic architecture, its diverse neighborhoods and populations, its universally recognized landmarks, its 24/7 lifestyle, and its 8 million stories have helped make the city a featured player in more than 17,000 movies—including such memorable films as King... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-21-2024 to 03-21-2024Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:30 PM Central TimeInstructor: Judy Scott Feldman, Ph.D., Art Historian/National Mall CoalitionTerm: OELocation: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisHundreds of French churches and cathedrals were destroyed or converted to warehouses or horse barns during the French Revolution. It wasn't until the mid-19th century that the French government committed to recover and restore that church heritage, inspired in part by the public success of Victor Hugo’s novel Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-02-2024 to 04-02-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 09:30 AM-11:00 AM Central TimeInstructor: Richard Bell, Professor of History, University of MarylandTerm: OELocation: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisBy now, it seems everyone has an opinion about The 1619 Project. Published in 2019, The 1619 Project was a special edition of The New York Times Magazine that tried to focus readers’ attention upon the centrality of race slavery in American history. We’ll push past the headlines and the posturing and test four of The 1619 Project’s central claims... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-03-2024 to 04-03-2024Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 12:00 PM-02:30 PM Central TimeInstructor: Barbara Paulson, Travel SpecialistTerm: OELocation: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisExplore spring’s bounty on over 1000 acres of gardens once owned by the Dupont family; visit an art museum, home, and studios of three generations of America’s finest painters (the Wyeths); watch potato chips being made at a major snack food factory (samples and an outlet store, too); and ride in a 1916 electric car (take that Elon Musk!). Travel expert... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-04-2024 to 04-04-2024Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:00 PM Central TimeInstructor: Martin Baron, Former Executive Editor, Washington PostTerm: OELocation: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisBaron’s new book, Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos and the Washington Post, chronicles politics and journalism during the tumultuous era of candidate and President Donald Trump. Some reviews of the book suggest that readers begin with the book’s epilogue, which lays out Baron’s view of “objectivity" in journalism and why news organizations need... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-11-2024 to 04-11-2024Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 09:30 AM-11:00 AM Central TimeInstructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeTerm: OELocation: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisThe tension between science and religion may be a significant fact concerning contemporary politics, but the rift goes back centuries. Galileo tried to argue that the two ought to be seen as distinct magisteria. The Dalai Lama, on the other hand, argued that science and religion can clash, and if they do then religion must change. What is the relation... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-11-2024 to 04-11-2024Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Central TimeInstructor: Dan Sherman, PhDTerm: OELocation: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisAlthough best known as classic musical film "The Wizard of Oz," the world of Oz began with the 1900 book by Frank L. Baum that quickly became a stage musical. This class will tell the tale of Baum's book and detail how it was made (with great difficulty) into the beloved movie musical of 1939, and later further adapted into "The Wiz" and "Wicked." Come and... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-16-2024 to 04-16-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 09:30 AM-11:00 AM Central TimeInstructor: David B Lindauer, Lt. Colonel (Ret.), US Army Signal CorpsTerm: OELocation: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisIn this presentation, we will discuss an event which history somehow overlooked: the attempt by a brave band of soldiers and civilians to overthrow Nazi rule in Munich, Germany, with the intention of handing the city over to the approaching Allied armies. This account is based largely on first-hand information provided by German Captain Rupprecht Gerngross,... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-16-2024 to 04-16-2024Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:30 PM Central TimeInstructor: Bonita Billman, Art History LecturerTerm: OELocation: Zoom - Washington Metro OasisMoving from place to place and job to job until he found his true calling as a painter, Vincent van Gogh had a short artistic career. Dying at 37, he was a painter for only ten years. He reached his “high, yellow note” as a painter during months he spent at Arles, in the South of France. Vincent spent only 444 days in Arles—the most prolific period in... read more