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American Trade Policy: Fundamentals Everyone Should Know, 1800-Present
- Dates: 3 Thursdays & 1 Friday, May 8, 15, 22 & 30
- Time: 1:00 - 2:30PM ET
- This set of 4 lectures will examine America’s trade regimes dating back to the earliest years of the republic. We will examine how issues of tariffs, economic subsidies, economic development strategies and free trade have evolved and changed in the 19th and 20th centuries. We will explore competing visions of figures such as Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, William McKinley, William H. Taft, Cordell Hull, George Marshall, William Brock and, in the 21st century, Robert Zoellick and Peter Navarro. We will also examine how the attitudes of average Americans have shaped trade policies over time.
Into History’s Abyss: The Decline of Great Modern Empires: Spain, Poland, and the Holy Roman Empire
- Dates: Fridays, May 2, 9, 16 & 23
- Time: 10:30-Noon ET
- This set of lectures will explore the declining fortunes of three of the great European empires of the early modern period: Spain, Poland-Lithuania, and the Holy Roman empire. Each achieved unprecedented heights of power only to see their influence fall dramatically in the 17th and 18th centuries. Military decline, economic paralysis, and political instability, decay and irrelevance led to the dissecting of Poland in the 1790s, the abolition of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, and the evisceration of Spain’s colonial empire in the 19th century, thus completing a disturbing and yet essential chapter in the history of modern Europe.
From Puritan to Yankee: The Religious and Commercial Development of colonial New England
- Dates: Mondays, May 5, 12, 19 & 26
- Time: 10:30 - Noon ET
- This set of 4 lectures will examine the European settlement of New England from 1620 to the early 18th century. We will examine the settlement of Plymouth and Boston and later Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire as religious and commercial settlers fought each other and Native Americans for primacy. We will explore the competing visions of each group and how they shaped distinct cultures and transformed their values over time, often leading to waves of war, compromise, assimilation and separation.
ANCIENT HISTORY: The Fall of the Roman Empire: Fundamentals Everyone Needs to Know
- Dates: Thursdays, May 1, 8, 15 & 22
- Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET
- This set of 4 lectures will examine the gradual decline of the Roman empire from the early 4th century through the end of the 5th century when in 476 Romulus Augustus, the last western emperor, was overthrown. We will explore the growing political and military crises that had seized the empire even as so-called barbarian tribes led by the likes of Attila the Hun wreaked havoc on its frontiers. We will also study the empire’s fateful spit into western and eastern parts, leading to the fall of one in 476 and the endurance of the eastern empire until the fall of Byzantium in 1453.