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Front Lines: Looking at the Current Russo-Ukraine War, 2014-2025
- Dates: Thursdays, Feb. 6, 13, 20 & 27
- Time: 10:30-Noon ET
- After eleven years of bloody conflict and over a million casualties in total in just the last three years, the current war in Ukraine has reached a critical turning point as a new US president takes the lead. Both Ukraine and Russia have been dramatically transformed by the war, badly damaging their economies, societies, and standings in the world. Indeed, the geopolitics of the world has been deeply altered as well. It is an appropriate time to assess what has happened and where things stand in the region and in the world – all in a context where history will be occurring during the course as the new administration sets its own course on the conflict.
From a New World Order to a War on Terror: The Second Bush Administration, 2000-2009
- Dates: Feb. 3, 10, 17 & 24
- Mondays, 10:30 - Noon ET
- This set of four lectures examines one of the most important (and yet largely misunderstood) administrations in recent US history, that of George W. Bush. During the early 21st century, the US will fundamentally reposition itself in the global order by (1) starting the War on Terror after 9/11, (2) open up fracking and achieve energy independence, and (3) inaugurate two of the longest wars in US history in Afghanistan and Iraq. On the domestic front, the GOP “establishment” will sit at the apex of its influence – even as its policy decisions sow the seeds of its own dissolution under the Trump administration later in the century. Come check out this overview of this critical era in America’s recent national experience.
Renaissance, Religion and War in Catherine de Medici’s France, 1515-1610
Renaissance, Religion and War in Catherine de Medici’s France, 1515-1610
- Dates: Fridays, Feb. 7, 14, 21 & 28
- Time: 10:30-Noon ET
- The 16th century was one of the most dynamic in French History. The Valois dynasty under King Francis I seemed at the center of European affairs, competing effectively with its rivals in England and in the Spanish, Ottoman and Holy Roman Empires. Yet, in one generation, France was plunged into civil and religious war that left the country bloodied and disunited. Queen Catherine de Medici (a foreigner) was at the center of these upheavals. Here, we will look at her life, times, and other key figures including her sons, Kings Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III and key in-laws of her children such as Mary Queen of Scots and King Henry IV, revealing a foundational century in the history of western Europe.