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History and Politics   

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  • Daily Life in Ancient Societies
  • Fee: $21.00
    Dates: 3/29/2023 - 4/19/2023
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
    Days: W
    Sessions: 4
    Location: Central Methodist Church  Garrett
    Instructor: James F Joyner III
    Part II: The discovery and translation of cuneiform tablets (Sumer, Mesopotamia, Assyria), hieroglyphic inscriptions (Egpyt), and other media have advanced in the past decades to the point that we can study social, political, military, and "religious" activities that were common to various socio-economic levels in ancient societies. We will look at their activities and compare and contrast them to daily life in our times. We will use various translations of ancient texts and inscriptions.
    This is a 4-week continuation of the class presented in the Winter term. It is not necessary to have taken the first class to take this one.

     

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  • Antebellum Spartanburg

  • This class is in session. Contact the office for more information.

    • Fee: $42.00

    • Dates: 3/16/2023 - 5/4/2023

      Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

    • Days: Th

    • Sessions: 8

    • Building: Central Methodist Church

      Room: Upper Room

    • Instructor: Philip Racine

    • A study of 19th century Spartanburg through the prism of Dr. Racine's articles and short pieces. One article a week (copies provided by the instructor) exploring an aspect of Spartanburg's history unfamiliar to most people. Lecture and class discussion format. Emphasis will be placed on slavery and the relation of Spartanburg's experience to regional and national history.

 

  • Evolution of American News Media

  • This class is in session. Contact the office for more information.

    • Fee: $42.00

    • Dates: 3/15/2023 - 5/3/2023

      Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

    • Days: W

    • Sessions: 8

    • Building: Central Methodist Church

      Room: Upper Room

    • Instructor: Olin Sansbury

    • Access to accurate information is an essential requirement for a healthy society. The capacity to share concerns and ideas confidently is necessary to resolve potential conflicts and facilitate cooperation. Throughout history, people have developed more and more sophisticated means for acquiring and sharing information, but modern technology has resulted in a communication revolution that in some ways seems to threaten the orderly functioning of today’s society.

 

  • France 1889: the Belle ´Epoque

  • This class is in session. Contact the office for more information.

    • Fee: $42.00

    • Dates: 3/13/2023 - 5/1/2023

      Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

    • Days: M

    • Sessions: 8

    • Building: Central Methodist Church

      Room: Upper Room

    • Instructor: Dennis Wiseman

    • Ends of centuries often lead us to moments of national reflection and stock-taking. We ask ourselves “where were we, what has happened, where are we now, what is next?” For this course, we will find some responses to these questions by looking at representations of France and French life from the latter decades of the XIXth C. until the outbreak of WWI. General topics for our eight sessions include art, music, literature, domestic and imperial politics. Suggested, but not required, readings include: Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe, vol 1. and Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War, vol 2

 

  • Great Decisions

  • This class is in session. Contact the office for more information.

    • Fee: $42.00

    • Dates: 3/14/2023 - 5/2/2023

      Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

    • Days: Tu

    • Sessions: 8

    • Building: Central Methodist Church

      Room: Upper Room

    • Instructor: Rob McCormick

    • Rarely has our country faced so many complex foreign policy issues.  Join us in Great Decisions, a place where we debate important political and diplomatic concerns from historical and political perspectives.  We may not solve any of the issues, but we always have a great deal of fun wrestling with the topics.  Come and be a part of this engaging and always exciting class.  You may pay for a Great Decisions book ($35) for the class by selecting the book section above this section lisiting and adding the book to your cart. Books can be picked up in the LLL office.  

 

  • Interesting characters from History and Music in America

  • This class is in session. Contact the office for more information.

    • Fee: $42.00

    • Dates: 3/14/2023 - 5/2/2023

      Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

    • Days: Tu

    • Sessions: 8

    • Building: Central Methodist Church

      Room: Shepard Room

    • Instructor: David Grote

    • Each of the eight weeks the class will meet a new famous person from the past. Their life and accomplishments will be shared via a power point including slides, film clips and music they are best known for giving us.  David plans on covering, in this order,  John Denver,  Douglass MacArthur (2 weeks), Neil Diamond, Lyndon B. Johnson, Clint Eastwood (many clips from his famous films)  Ella Fitzgerald and Ronald Wilson Reagan.

 

  • Stories from before, during and after the Great War

  • This class is in session. Contact the office for more information.

    • Fee: $21.00

    • Dates: 3/14/2023 - 4/4/2023

      Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

    • Days: Tu

    • Sessions: 4

    • Building: Central Methodist Church

      Room: Garrett

    • Instructor: Jim Crocker

    • This four-week class will cover topics that will consist of stories of lesser-known people and events from around the time of World War I. While each story will be presented with photo illustrations most will also include examples of items that have been mentioned. Program participants will be able to handle items that are generally only viewed behind glass in a museum case. This should lead to several group discussions concerning the use and effectiveness of the item being demonstrated. It is hoped that through this hands-on experience of some items a greater understanding of the personal side of the war will be imparted to the class participants.

 

  • Who Is Who, What is What and Where is Where in 1st Century Palestine

  • This class is in session. Contact the office for more information.

    • Fee: $42.00

    • Dates: 3/16/2023 - 5/4/2023

      Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

    • Days: Th

    • Sessions: 8

    • Building: Central Methodist Church

      Room: Upper Room

    • Instructor: James Ellis Griffeth

    • An exploration of the complex, troublesome, dangerous home of the beginnings of Christianity: including the context in which Jesus lived and in which Christianity emerged — geography, topography, history of invasions, languages, ethnic groups, political realities, religions, Greco-Roman lifestyles of the “rich and infamous” and the everyday realities of peasant life in first-century Palestine. The class will also explore the housing, fields, stables and burial customs of that century.