New Academy Series -- "The Great War"
Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 03:06PM 
Our next Academy series begins on Friday, April 17. Here is the schedule of classes, lectures, video, and discussion of our assigned text.
April 17 (7:30 p.m.) Lecture: "The Legacy of World War One" Why study a war fought one hundred years ago?
April 24 (7:00 p.m.) Video: "To Arms" from the series The First World War, based upon Hew Strachan's book, narrated and produced by Jonathan Lewis
(8:00 p.m.) Lecture/Discussion: "The Causes of the War" Who started it, and why?
May 1 (7:00 p.m.) Video: "War Without End" from the series The First World War, based upon Hew Strachan's book narrated and produced by Jonathan Lewis
(8:00 p.m.) Lecture/Discussion: "The Cessation of Hostilities" The Treaty of Versailles, and the Balfour Declaration
May 8: No Academy
May 15 (7:30 p.m.) Lecture/Discussion: "One Hundred Years Later" How the consequences of the "Great War" still impact the world in which we live
May 22 (7:30 p.m.) Discussion of The Great and Holy War by Philip Jenkins, (chapters One - Six, pp. 1-188)
May 29 (7:30 p.m.) Discussion of The Great and Holy War by Philip Jenkins, (chapters seven-conclusion, pp. 189-377)
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