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How much good stuff do we learn before we reach age 21? Memoirist Rix Quinn says we acquire loads of knowledge...and he details it in this program. Much of his data comes from extensive interviews with 50 Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) whom he interviewed while working on a newspaper research project.
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Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire. William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) was a British politician and philanthropist. His most significant contribution to history was his role as leader of the movement for abolition of the British slave trade when he took up the cause in Parliament. In 1789, he delivered his first major speech on the issue, condemning the inhumanity of the slave trade. For nearly two decades, he introduced bills to abolish the trade, facing strong opposition from economic and political interests benefiting from slavery. He encountered defeats. Nevertheless, his perseverance paid off when the Slave Trade Act was passed in 1807, making it illegal to engage in the slave trade within the British Empire. His work did not end there, as he continued to push for the complete abolition of slavery itself, a goal achieved with the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, three days before his death.
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Join author James Marquart as he shares his story of buying the home of a convicted murderer. You will hear details of the crime's investigation, along with the trial and sentencing. James will even share details of his correspondence with the perpetrator, who currently resides in prison. The lecture will conclude with a discussion of "authors vs. criminals", much like the situation involving Truman Capote in his historic book "In Cold Blood".
On Campus Session
- Section Code: F25FSFPGL006A
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Instructor: James Marquart
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Dates: 10/24/2025 - 10/24/2025
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Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Building: Annie Richardson Bass
Room: 1004
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Paul Revere was just an ordinary man living in very exciting times, and he was involved in important events during the American Revolution. He had a role in the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Battle of Lexington & Concord. This involvement was largely forgotten until 1861 until a poem, entitled “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” was written. Revere is mentioned in most history books alongside George Washington. He will tell you the true story of the “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”
Stevenson Oaks
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One summer day, Bertha Benz borrowed the "family car," and with her two teenaged sons in tow, took a trip to visit her mother. In 1888. The very first extended drive of an automobile anywhere, by anyone. Along the way, during a very long day's drive, she discovered a variety of things that needed to be improved, and eventually they were.
Stevenson Oaks
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The Goodnight-Loving Trail, also known as the Goodnight Trail or the Loving Trail, was one of several routes used to drive herds of wild Texas cattle from Texas to more viable markets during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving certainly left their mark on the history of Texas and the American West, yet did not blaze the trail that carries their name. Like most topics related to the American West, the lines between legend, fiction, and reality have become blurred with the passage of time. What is the real story behind the legend of Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, and the Goodnight-Loving Trail?
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This course will examine why Texas voted to join the Confederacy, how the people coped with wartime conditions, and where the men fought. It will look at not only the soldiers that Texas furnished to the southern armies, but also how the women back home dealt with their changing roles as head of households.
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Creede, Colorado was the last silver strike boomtown of the American West. The population exploded in just a year or two, bringing not just miners, but those fringe characters who preyed on miner's wages. We talk about silver mining, the boomtown's growth, and four Wild West characters selected from that fringe: Bat Masterson, Robert Ford, Poker Annie, and Soapy Smith.
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World War I has been called the seminal catastrophe of the 20th century. Over 30 countries, 80 million soldiers and countless civilians were eventually engulfed in the war. The events of this war are rich with stories of heroes, villains, and other odd characters. In this class, we will discuss the stories of a selection of these individuals from both allied and enemy combatants. We will even cover a couple of individuals who passed through Fort Worth on their war to the war, and even one non-human hero.
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College football possesses an extremely passionate fan base, especially in Texas. Whether you wear purple, red, green or orange, in the fall, the world revolves around each and every game. But what if you really don't know the game? Do you feel left out every Saturday? Do your friends, family or spouse begin to speak in a language you simply do not understand? What exactly is a naked bootleg? If the offense is in the shotgun formation, are firearms being brought onto the field? Would you like to know more about the greatest American sport? Being a lifelong College football fan, Debra Million would like to help you get to know the sport, its rules, rivalries and traditions. You'll feel left out no longer after this fun and informative class.
On Campus Session
- Section Code: F25FSFHCR071A
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Instructor: Debra Million
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Dates: 9/26/2025 - 10/3/2025
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Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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Sessions: 2
Days: F
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Building: Annie Richardson Bass
Room: 1004
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Both leaders experienced career ending outcomes by attaching Russia. What are the similarities and differences as well as lessons learned from taking in the bear in the East?
On Campus Session
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE251A
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Instructor: Linda Lanctot
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Dates: 9/26/2025 - 10/3/2025
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Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Sessions: 2
Days: F
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Building: Annie Richardson Bass
Room: 1004
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Did you learn to read with Dick and Jane along with Sally, Spot and Puff? I bet you did. Over 85% of children in the 50’s and 60’s used the Scott, Foresman program. Where did it come from? Why was it so popular? And besides reading, what else was it teaching us?
Stevenson Oaks
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This class will feature Harriet Beecher Stowe, her family and her fascinating journey in life which include the people she met along the way.
On Campus Session
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Tradition looms large in Washington DC at the holidays, and nowhere is tradition more important and public than in the President's house. From presidential Christmas cards to fantastical trees to elaborate gingerbread houses, each family in residence chooses elements of the season to represent the time and their administration. Join me for highlights of Christmases past in the White House.
The Stayton
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While the Nazis were burning books in WWII, the Americans were printing them. Millions of them. The story of the Victory Book Campaign and the development of the first mass produced paperbacks. How librarians, publishers, and the War Department worked together to get the best of American writing out to our troops.
Off Campus Session
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Before the flu pandemic of 1918 and the Coronavirus of 2020, there was the smallpox outbreak of 1775-1777. John Adams wrote to his wife on June 26, 1776, "The smallpox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians and Indians, together. The small Pox! The small Pox! What shall we do with it?" This presentation will explore the various diseases that affected the American and British armies. We will examine how diseases decided the outcome of some battles and explore some early uses of biological warfare. "Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among those disaffected tribes of Indians?"-----Sir Jeffery Amherst, the British commander-in-chief in North America.
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Beginning in grade school I have been fascinated with the JFK family. When the opportunity to attend the auction of Mrs. Onassis belongings presented itself, I jumped at the chance. However, it wasn't QUITE that easy. I take you along on the journey when my mother and I attended the auction preview at Sotheby's in NYC and witnessed the joy, insanity, and total abandon of all fiscal responsibility that was the auction.
Trinity Terrace
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE185A
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Instructor: Darcy Sety
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Dates: 9/17/2025 - 9/17/2025
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Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Building: Trinity Terrace
Room: Longhorn Room
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We will explore King Arthur, Jack, his beanstalk, their kinship, and how understanding who they are will shake up our perception of who we are and our history. When and how did these accounts, legends and stories develop over hundreds of years from different places on our planet, yet they are all related, fit together and very precisely tell an amazing story?
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Three servicemen return to their homes after World War II. Readjusting to the lives they left behind and struggling to adapt to the changes that occurred while they were gone. Won 7 Academy Awards. Only movie where one actor took home two Oscars. Producer Samuel Goldwyn is reported saying, I don't care if it makes any money. I just want everyone in America to see it."
Trinity Terrace
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE252A
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Instructor: Lynn Main
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Dates: 9/10/2025 - 9/10/2025
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Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Building: Trinity Terrace
Room: Longhorn Room
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Step back into the thrilling 1960s, when NASA’s Project Mercury captured the imagination of an entire generation. This lecture explores the challenges, achievements, and key missions that shaped early space exploration, including the historic flights of astronauts like Alan Shepard and John Glenn. Whether you followed the space missions on your black and white TV set or are only discovering these events for the first time, this class is intended to spark the excitement and sense of possibility at the beginnings of the Space Race.
On Campus Session
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE219A
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Instructor: Mike Kennedy
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Dates: 9/12/2025 - 10/3/2025
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Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Sessions: 4
Days: F
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Building: Annie Richardson Bass
Room: 1004
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Initially launched by the Imperial Japanese Forces as a feint to 1942's tide-turning Battle of Midway, the Aleutian Islands Campaign would erupt into the first American offensive action in the Pacific. Battling over 1,200 miles of the island chain, American and Canadian forces would find fighting the terrain and weather just as formidable as fighting the determined IJF. The islands of Attu and Kiska were seized by Japan and would be the only seizure of American territory in North America with the cost of casualties for the campaign exceeded only in the Pacific by I945's Battle for Iwo Jima. Come learn about this often-forgotten episode of World War II in this two-lecture set.
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An exploration of urbanism and its effects on our quality of life. Topics to include traditional neighborhood form and postwar suburban sprawl, their differences and effects. Issues addressed will include walkability, transit, social connection, public health, aging in place, and more. No prior knowledge of the subject is required. This course will be of interest to anyone concerned with the ways we shape our human habitat, and the ways it shapes us!
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Are you acquainted with the legend of Atlantis? Have you looked into it? Do you have an opinion about its being fact or fiction? If, like me, you find this subject fascinating, then regardless of how you answer these questions you should enjoy this examination of recent evidence that supports surprisingly varied claims that Atlantis did exist, perhaps in an unexpected form, and maybe in an unexpected location.
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Class sessions will begin with a 15-30 minute summary of a current societal issue. Discussions will be non-adversarial (thoughtful but not heated), eliciting from class members alternative positions and associated rationale. Topics for each class period will be selected by class members and could include topics such as: School Vouchers; Income Inequality; Climate Change; and Death with Dignity. This class can be repeated, since if taken multiple times the specific discussion topics will be different for each class.
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This class is a compilation of two of Linda Lanctot's previous classes. If you've taken the Hitler/Stalin or Hitler/Churchill classes, please let another student catch up who hasn't taken these yet. This class will be biographical in nature and cover the strategies, character and history of World War II's three most consequential leaders.
On Campus Session
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE234A
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Instructor: Linda Lanctot
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Dates: 11/12/2025 - 12/10/2025
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Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Sessions: 4
Days: W
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Building: Secrest Wible
Room: 119
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What might the Ancient Stoics teach us about how to live in today's turbulent world? Surprisingly, quite a lot. The Stoic Epictetus, who was a slave for his first 30 years of life, once said, "He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at." Stoic wisdom has been around for centuries. We will delve into their core beliefs and practices, learning from the greats: Zeno, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. How could an ancient philosophy remain not only relevant but inspiring in today's world? This is a class for participation and discussion.
On Campus Session
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This course will explore the causes of the Civil War and examine key battles that shaped its outcome, including Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg.
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Using the innovative pedagogical tool known as Reacting to the Past, this course features a highly-participatory reenactment of the moment of Conquest in Mexico in 1519. Each participant inhabits a specific historical role based on a real historical protagonist or a fictitious composite character, to be assigned during the first meeting. Participants research their role and act out specific scenarios over two distinct game sessions. By giving speeches, making proposals, and negotiating alliances, participants may change the course of history.
On Campus Session
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE233A
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Instructor: Bonnie Lucero
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Dates: 11/13/2025 - 12/11/2025
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Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Sessions: 4
Days: Th
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Building: Secrest Wible
Room: 119
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This course will review and discuss the background, investigation, homicide, and aftermath of the 1976 murder of two people at the Cullen Davis mansion in west Fort Worth. We will examine the facts as well as the characters involved in the trial, its extensive press coverage, the crime and what followed. Facts that were never published will also be discussed. Davis was acquitted after a five-month trial, but students may draw their own conclusions as to his guilt or innocence. Fort Worth had its own "OJ" before there was "OJ".
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Controversy over the name and route of the Chisholm Trail has persisted over time; and the popularity of late nineteenth-century Wild West shows, dime novels, and twentieth-century radio, movie, and television western drama has propelled the bygone era of the cattle trail into myth. The rise of automobile tourism, potential economic impact of tourists, and the appearance of numerous "historical" markers based on little more than hearsay contributed to the Chisholm Trail legend. Primary documents and sources that may have been unavailable to previous historians will be used to offer a new look at the Old Chisholm Trail.
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Ever wonder who Hulen Street was named for? Before WWI, you traveled west from downtown on Arlington Heights Boulevard. Then, this big, sprawling army camp was built and the street renamed. Actually, a lot of streets were named and renamed following the construction and decommissioning of Camp Bowie. Learn the story of where it sprawled, what changes it made to Fort Worth, and what remains now. The class includes excellent overlays of Camp Bowie onto the current map of Fort Worth, and much, much more.
On Campus Session
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE250A
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Instructor: Tyler Alberts
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Dates: 10/2/2025 - 10/2/2025
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Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Building: Secrest Wible
Room: 119
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Is your only memory about the US military's use of Native American code talkers from the movie "Windtalkers" starring Nicolas Cage? Well, long before the Navajo and members of 18 other tribes served in this role in WWII ... this idea was created right here in Fort Worth. Numerous Choctaw were members of the 36th Division, training at Camp Bowie. A bright idea led to 18 of them being selected to send unbreakable messages within the division during WWI, as remarkably few German soldiers spoke Choctaw. Amazingly, this idea was remembered and then expanded for WWII. But, it all started here.
Trinity Terrace
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE256A
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Instructor: Jerry Davis
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Dates: 11/5/2025 - 11/5/2025
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Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Building: Trinity Terrace
Room: Longhorn Room
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In 1781, the Colonies, Britain, and France had grown tired of the Revolution. It was clear that one side needed to score a knockout blow and seize the victory. Both Cornwallis and Washington saw that this victory might come in Virginia in 1781. In October of 1781, nearly 30,000 American, French, British, and German troops faced each other in a winner take all battle. This presentation is an account of the Siege of Yorktown taken from journals, diaries, memoirs, pension applications, letters, and newspapers. The soldiers expressed their fears, hopes, and impressions of this great event, as well as the destruction that took place.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle on North American soil in history. This course explores the leadup to the battle, unravels some myths and mysteries of the fight, and follows the post-battle pursuit to its frustrating culmination. This program stands on its own, but you may find it informative to also take the companion mini-course, Thunder on the Water: Charleston and Vicksburg July 1863.
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In July 1863, three great campaigns of the Civil War culminated. Two, at Vicksburg, Mississippi and Charleston, South Carolina, were on bodies of water, the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean. Both had tremendous strategic consequences for the US Civil War. In addition to exploring the campaigns that culminated in Vicksburg and Charleston, this mini-course may provide a foundation for better understanding of other courses and programs concerning the Civil War.
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My husband and I travelled to Germany last summer researching , reading about and surveying the cultural cost of the Allies plans to defeat Germany. Churchill, Eisenhower and Stalin laid waste to entire cities and villages. We'll examine the defense and the calculations that the Allies made to insure the unconditional surrender of Europe's Nazi occupation.
On Campus Session
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE220A
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Instructor: Linda Lanctot
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Dates: 10/22/2025 - 10/29/2025
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Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Sessions: 2
Days: W
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Building: Secrest Wible
Room: 119
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On December 16th, 2017, The New York Times (NYT) published a news article titled "Glowing Auras and Black Money: The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program" coauthored by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, Leslie Kean. Since the publication, Congress has held three bipartisan hearings on the topic. Multiple government reports have been published across several official agencies. Additionally, new legislation has been introduced with new terms as Unidentified Aerial phenomena (UAP) and Non-Human Intelligence (NHI). This lecture will provide an overview of the recent past event taken place since the publication of the NYT article, as well as the present and future of the subject.
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In every war there is usually an event that is considered a turning point, or at the least very important. Most of the time the importance is not revealed until the end of the conflict. The victor will exclaim,"That is the reason we won," while the vanquished uses it as an excuse for losing. Sometimes the importance of the good or bad event is not discovered until many years later, when historians can look back at "the big picture". Such events occurred during the American Revolution. This presentation will explore the impact, good or bad, that certain decisions have on events that influenced the eventual outcome of the war. There was not one event that led to the conclusion of the war. Rather, there are a combination of good and bad decisions that determine who won or lost.
The Stayton
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Class 1: If these Walls Could Talk. Walking across a college campus is a little like walking through a time machine. So many people and events have created the present TCU but sometimes we forget the impact of the built environment. The buildings and landmarks have seen all the history and they will frame our discussions of TCU history.
Class 2. Our TCU. Participants will share their own history of TCU by identifying and sharing favorite or meaningful places on the campus. Both sessions will involve interaction between participants as well as challenge participant knowledge of TCU trivia. No walking involved!!
Recommended reading: Walking TCU: A Historical Perspective. This course will be team taught by Dr Phil Hartman and Dr Don Mills. Between them Drs Hartman and Mills have almost 100 years experience at TCU.
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“In the language of the Holy Writ, there is a time for all things. There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight.” With those words Rev. John Muhlenberg stepped from his pulpit, removed his clerical robe, and revealed the uniform of a colonial officer. He then marched off to war. This presentation is about ministers that became chaplains in the American Army during the Revolution. Most of the men were not content with just administering to the spiritual needs of the troops, but they also took up the musket for the cause of liberty.
Trinity Terrace
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE075A
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Instructor: Jack Crowder
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Dates: 11/12/2025 - 11/12/2025
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Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Building: Trinity Terrace
Room: Longhorn Room
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This class will bring to light the contributions women from both the North and South made during the Civil War. These are women who dedicated their lives in support of their beliefs and convictions. The many roles of those women included: nurses, doctors, spies, soldiers, authors, guides, spokeswomen, and those who kept the home-front and farms operating during the war between the states.
The Stayton
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The story of two extraordinary women who were test pilots for Hitler and the 3rd Reich. The lecture presents their biography and their connections with Adolf Hitler and other top Nazi officials as well as their outstanding accomplishments as test pilots for the Luftwaffe. This lecture explores the remarkable triumphs and the sad tragedies of both Hanna and Melitta.
Stevenson Oaks
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The instructor will share personal experiences from working for Lady Bird Johnson - a love letter to this bright and wonderful woman & her many contributions.
Trinity Terrace
- Section Code: F25FSFHCE087A
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Instructor: JonAnna Reidinger
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Dates: 10/15/2025 - 10/15/2025
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Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Building: Trinity Terrace
Room: Longhorn Room
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