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- 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die
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- Ernest Hemingway – the Man, the Myth, and the Work
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- The Emergence of Life
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- Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
- Your Past and Present Memories
- Fall 2017
- 18th Century England
- Basic Drawing
- Going with the Grain
- Hamilton the Musical & History: How Accurately Does the Broadway Show Represent Alexander Hamilton’s World?
- Have an Inkling: The Fellowship of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Hitler & Nazi Germany: The Man and the Times; the challenge in the 20th century.
- Jane Austen: Her Books and Her World
- Marriage in Literature: Late 20th-Century Portrayals
- Modern Hard Boiled Crime Fiction: Explorations of conscience, morality and culture
- Nana & Papa 101
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- Our Maturing Ecological Perspective: Seeing Beauty in Bogs, Compost Piles, Clotheslines, and Solar Arrays
- Radiation and You: The Good, the Bad, the Unknown
- Reading “The Odyssey”: Homer’s epic story of homecoming
- Seeing Art
- The Arithmetic of Symmetry
- The Immigrants Revisited
- The Playwright and the Preacher
- The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth and Islam
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- What is the US Foreign Policy in the Mideast?
- Writing to Remember (Blue Section): Writing Your Own Story
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- History’s Mysteries: Revisiting Classic Crime Novels
- Lesser Known Giants of the 20th Century
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- Spring 2015
- A Walk in the Park: Cities, Parks and People in the United States from 1900 to the Present
- American Modern Dance in the 20th Century
- Ancient Rome
- Biogeography
- Great 20th Century American Short Fiction
- History of Medicine
- Mathematical Puzzles in Everyday Life
- Owning Art: Claims and Controversies
- Poetry Out Loud: Contemporary Poets of the Pioneer Valley
- Religious Revolution to the Dawn of Modernity: Martin Luther to the Peace of Westphalia 1517-1648
- Robots
- Rudyard Kipling: Strange Genius
- Russia: The Last 100 Years
- The Art and History of the Illustrated Book
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- The Body Has a Mind: A Survey of Alternative Medical Practices
- The Dismal Science: Economics!
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- The Progressive Era
- The United States in the 1930’s
- Using Art Objects to Curate Life Memories
- What Does it Mean to be a Person?
- Spring 2016
- 2016 Primary and Caucus Season (Presidential Election Part 1)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Relation To Victorian Times: Does He Relate to Ours?
- Broadway Musicals
- Expressing Your Artistic Spirit Through Photography
- Genius and Neurosis Closely Allied: The James Family
- Great American Photographers: Shaping Our Own Vision
- Internet Privacy & Security: Issues, and Tools for Protection
- Mathematical Puzzles in Life
- Memorable Structures and Inventions Since 1800
- Poetry Out Loud
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- Politics and the Representation of Lesbians in North American Cinema, 1960’s – Present
- Primer in Climate Change Modeling
- Reading Beowulf
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- The Golden Age of the Arab
- We’re All Artists Now
- Who’s On First: Biographies of American Comedy
- Why Do Many of Our Systems Seem to be Broken?
- Writing to Remember – Red Section
- Spring 2017
- American Impressionism: Revolt of the Ten
- Basic Drawing
- British India
- Broadway Musicals
- Chaim Potok: Asher Lev, the Artist In Conflict With Community
- Contemporary Trends in String Quartet Composition
- Don Quixote, Part II (1615)
- Every Dog Has Its Day: Dogs in Human History and Culture
- High Water, Power Politics, Disaster Management: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
- Inequality in the New Gilded Age
- My Favorite Painter
- Oh, Canada! Who Art Thou?
- Poetry and the American Civil War
- Reading Piketty: Capital in the 20th Century
- The American West, 1850-1900
- The Impact of a Favorite Children’s Book on Our Adult Life
- The US, 1912-1920
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