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Mill Girls Class is full. Click the add to Waitlist button below. |
Presenter: Peg Fargo |
Sessions: 2 Tu – 3/16/2021-3/23/2021 |
Time: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM |
Location: Online- OLLI from your Home, , NH |
1820s in America - a time when the face of New England was changing. The development and rapid rise of the textile industry occurred in river towns where water power could be harnessed. Young women were recruited from farm life to come into the growing urban areas and work in the mills. This class will focus on the mill girls of Lowell, Mass - the excitement of living on their own and the challenges and hazards they faced working in the mills.
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Puritanism in New England: the Good, the Bad and the Revolutionary! Class is full. Click the add to Waitlist button below. |
Presenter: Eleanor Strang |
Sessions: 1 F – 4/9/2021-4/9/2021 |
Time: 1:00 PM-3:30 PM |
Location: Online- OLLI from your Home, , NH |
The journalist H.L. Mencken famously defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Puritanical has come to mean intolerant, repressed and humorless. But the story of the Puritans of New England is a complex one, with positive as well as negative aspects. We will explore their history and beliefs, and see the differences between the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and the Puritans of the much more influential Massachusetts Bay Colony. We will examine the stories of some famous New England Puritans including John Winthrop and Anne Hutchinson. We'll also explore the ways in which we as Americans are indebted to the Puritans because they constitute a large part of the the answer to the question: Why did the American Revolution start in Boston?
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Puritanism in New England: the Good, the Bad and the Revolutionary! Class is full. Click the add to Waitlist button below. |
Presenter: Eleanor Strang |
Sessions: 1 Tu – 4/20/2021-4/20/2021 |
Time: 1:00 PM-3:30 PM |
Location: Online- OLLI from your Home, , NH |
The journalist H.L. Mencken famously defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Puritanical has come to mean intolerant, repressed and humorless. But the story of the Puritans of New England is a complex one, with positive as well as negative aspects. We will explore their history and beliefs, and see the differences between the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and the Puritans of the much more influential Massachusetts Bay Colony. We will examine the stories of some famous New England Puritans including John Winthrop and Anne Hutchinson. We'll also explore the ways in which we as Americans are indebted to the Puritans because they constitute a large part of the the answer to the question: Why did the American Revolution start in Boston?
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Understanding Today's China Class is full. Click the add to Waitlist button below. |
Presenter: Elliott Berry |
Sessions: 3 W – 4/7/2021-4/21/2021 |
Time: 5:30 PM-7:00 PM |
Location: Online- OLLI from your Home, , NH |
Today China is increasingly viewed in the US and other parts of the western world as an emerging superpower that threatens the peace and stability of Asia and the current world order. In order to make an assessment of where China is headed, it may be helpful to examine where it is coming from. In the first session we will look at the collapse of the Qing Empire beginning with the First Opium War, it’s subjugation by western imperial powers, the start of the republican and communist revolutions, and the Anti-Japanese War (WW II). In the second session we will examine the rise of China, starting with the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the turbulent Maoist era, including the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. In the final session we will examine the “reform and opening up” policy initiated by Deng Xiaoping that ushered in what is, by most measures, the fastest period of economic growth that any nation in world history has achieved. We will end by looking at how China’s current leader, Xi Jinping, has steered a different course from his recent predecessors, one that may be more consistent with China’s imperial past. Hopefully this brief history can assist us in trying to assess China’s ambitions, challenges and fears in coming decades.
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