History & Current Affairs   

This workshop will be an examination of "greater Bisbee" including environmental history, the history of the people who lived in the area, the mining history of the region, the history of violence, the importance of the fraternal societies, the Bisbee deportation and the transformation of Bisbee into a tourist town. Bisbee will be compared to other towns in Arizona including Jerome and Prescott.

One of the failures in communication in these times is disinformation. Through class discussion, examples you can bring, and looking at Barbara McQuade's book Attack From Within, we will try to come up with possible solutions.

Learn about the origins of democracy: how the Athenian lawgiver Solon (638-559 BCE), one of the seven sages of ancient Greece, made democratic constitutional reforms to Draco's harsh laws that were novel in their own time but still relevant today. Learn how our American democracy, its founding principles, public architecture, legislative bodies and Western Civilization owe their origins in important ways to Ancient Athens and Greek culture, achievements, philosophy, science and technology.