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“Sharing Our Past — Shaping Our Future” Since 1974 |
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Consider This . . . These issue-oriented series explore a wide range of attention-grabbing and out-of-the-ordinary topics.
Americans Abroad ~ 4 Sessions What really happens when Americans travel abroad? How are they perceived on foreign soil? How do they perceive themselves, displaced from their homeland? Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast Paul Bowles, Up Above the World Mary Morris, Nothing to Declare
Blue Collar America ~ 4 Sessions Who is the working class? Look past the stereotypes to examine the realities of minimum wage existence, small-town economics, social divisions, and what does or doesn’t constitute the good life. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Richard Russo, Empire Falls Philip Levine, What Work Is Don Snyder, The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
Comprehending Today’s Middle East ~ 6 Sessions This series focuses on the culture, heritage, religion and policies of the countries of the Middle East and their relationships with the United States. Karen Armstrong, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong Geraldine Brooks, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999 Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence Ahmad Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
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