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- A Dry Subject: The History of Prohibition
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This course begins by noting the importance of alcohol throughout human history and in America. We’ll talk about the social and political forces that led to the 18th Amendment, including consumption levels, the women’s movement, the anti-saloon league and the establishment of a federal income tax. Then we’ll discuss the era of Prohibition itself and the unexpected consequences, including an increase in both crime and drinking, widespread corruption of officials, and increased disrespect for the law. (Medicinal whiskey anyone??) Finally we’ll look at the factors that led to the repeal of Prohibition, including the Great Depression and changing attitudes.
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- Amazing Insights into the Apostle Paul from his Seven Letters (Zoom) Zoom Only
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Fee: $30.00
Dates: 3/31/2026 - 4/28/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 5
Building: ZOOM
Room:
Instructor: George Martin
Maximum Enrollment: 40
Going Deeper into the Letters Paul Actually Wrote: There are seven New Testament letters Paul actually wrote in the middle of the first century. Years after he died others wrote in his name. They are pseudopigrapha. After years of intensive research Pastor George Martin (author of Paul Found in His Letters) has unearthed some of realities allowing us to see the real Paul in intriguing ways. This course addresses these questions:
1. Can we find a date for Paul in the first century?
2. Discovering Paul’s amazing relationships with women?
3. Did Paul silently approve of those who kept slaves?
4. Why did Paul want to take the gospel to Spain?
5. What leads us to think that Paul was less of theologian and more of a mystic?
Pastor Martin (retired Episcopal Priest) became a Pauline scholar in his retirement. His book looks at Paul from a firstcentury historical and cultural perspective. Highlights from his research shape this course.
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- Boonesborough - Kentucky Bastion (Hybrid) Zoom Only
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Fee: $30.00
Dates: 3/11/2026 - 4/1/2026
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Building: ZOOM
Room:
Instructor: Phil Maxson
Maximum Enrollment: 30
We will discuss the critical events that occurred at Boonesborough that helped defend Kentucky from British and Indian attacks. The events that happened at Boonesborough from its founding in 1775 through the critical years of 1776- 1779 helped defend Kentucky and also was essential for the American victory in the west during the Revolutionary War.
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- Boonesborough - Kentucky Bastion (Hybrid)
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Fee: $30.00
Item Number: 2026 SCOR145201
Dates: 3/11/2026 - 4/1/2026
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Building: Beaumont Presbyterian Church
Room: Sunday School Room
Instructor: Phil Maxson
THIS CLASS IS FULL. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below.
We will discuss the critical events that occurred at Boonesborough that helped defend Kentucky from British and Indian attacks. The events that happened at Boonesborough from its founding in 1775 through the critical years of 1776- 1779 helped defend Kentucky and also was essential for the American victory in the west during the Revolutionary War.
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- Golden Age of Piracy
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If you picture the Caribbean during the early 1700's, don't just think of palm trees and calm seas. Instead think chaos, cannons, and rum. The Golden Age of Piracy was a wild, 25 year stretch when thousands of sailors abandoned ordinary life and became pirates. Grab your scabbard and your grog and join in the adventures of individual pirates such as Black Sam Bellamy, Benjamin Hornigold, and Blackbeard. We will be explore the role of pirates in creating a unique democracy while causing serious economic and political disruptions for Spain and other world powers. And we will also see how their bold behavior and actions influenced Colonial America and why their legacy still sails strong today.
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- Great Decisions 2026: Toward a Fifth Age of American Foreign Policy?
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Fee: $30.00
Item Number: 2026 SCOR145301
Dates: 2/23/2026 - 3/30/2026
Times: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 6
Building: Crestwood Christian Church
Room: Bradford Room
Instructor: Jeff Freyman
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In his 2022 book "The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy", Michael Mandelbaum traces U.S. global relations through four historical periods: as a weak power (1765- 1865), as a great power (1865-1945), as a superpower (1945- 1990), and as a hyperpower (1990-2015). Have we entered a fifth age of U.S. foreign policy? If so, what are its chief features? The course will examine a number of specific current world problems in light of these questions. It is based on "Great Decisions", a curriculum created by the Foreign Policy Association, whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for developing informed opinion on U.S. foreign policy and global issues. The course involves reading the Great Decisions briefing book about a set of issues, listening to presentations about them, and then discussing them as a group. The book and presentations provide background information on policy options, while avoiding partisan politics. Topics from which to choose this year include: tariffs and the world economy, U.S.-China relations, the risk of nuclear proliferation, Ukraine and European security, international organizations, U.S. engagement with Africa, and human rights and international law.
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- Kentucky, America's Restless Heart: A Study of the Commonwealth's Contributions to and Reflections of American Culture and Character Zoom Only
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Fee: $30.00
Dates: 3/18/2026 - 4/15/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 5
Building: ZOOM
Room:
Instructor: Larry Hood
Maximum Enrollment: 20
This course will follow the state of Kentucky as it moved through five distinctive historical periods, and its people as they confronted the great issues of each era. We will consider how Kentuckians have understood and/or contributed to such things as the meaning of land ownership, the definition of family and work, individual liberty and community parameters, religious doctrine and practice, education, American arts, race relations, and party politics. Class members will be encouraged to contribute their own thoughts and participate in discussions.
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- Lessons NOT Learned from the Vietnam War Zoom Only
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Fee: $25.00
Dates: 3/10/2026 - 3/17/2026
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 2
Building: ZOOM
Room: Online Only
Instructor: Ed Linz
Maximum Enrollment: 125
Participants will learn and discuss the numerous opportunities the United States had to avoid participating in the Vietnam War. We will also discuss Vietnam history and the flawed conduct of the war up to U.S. withdrawal in 1973.
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- Only Hope: My Mother and the Holocaust Brought to Light Zoom Only
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Fee: $20.00
Dates: 4/10/2026 - 4/10/2026
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 1
Building: ZOOM
Room:
Instructor: Irving Lubliner
Maximum Enrollment: 200
Before she died in 1974, Felicia Bornstein Lubliner wrote about her internment in ghettos and concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Poland, powerful stories shedding light on her experiences and indomitable spirit, telling a story that Rabbi Dennis J. Eisner described as “deeper than a number—6,000,000—giving us a human touch in the midst of inhumanity.” Her son, Irv, will share excerpts from her book, “Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust.” You will learn about the Holocaust through his mother's eyes, as well as how he, the child of two survivors of Auschwitz, was impacted by his parents' experiences.
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- Sea Power (Hybrid) In Person
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Maximum Enrollment: 15
This course will educate and inform participants about what sea power has meant historically and will examine what it means today and might mean looking forward. The “freedom of the seas” is a centuries-old precept, but many do not realize that the primary driving force behind that precept is commerce. Economics comes first, with naval strength being a necessary corollary to economies that rely on seaborne trade. A nation must have both a strong economy and a powerful Navy to become a “Great Sea Power”. The United States has exercised a hegemony for many decades that included its recognized position as an unrivaled naval power with the world’s largest economy. That hegemony appears to be disappearing rapidly. This SIG will consider who – in anyone – will guarantee freedom of the seas If the United States can no longer “go it alone”.
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- Sea Power (Hybrid)
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Fee: $30.00
Item Number: 2026 SCOR145502
Dates: 2/10/2026 - 3/17/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 6
Building: ZOOM
Room:
Instructor: Richard Elliott
THIS CLASS IS FULL. Please click the "Add to Waitlist" button below.
This course will educate and inform participants about what sea power has meant historically and will examine what it means today and might mean looking forward. The “freedom of the seas” is a centuries-old precept, but many do not realize that the primary driving force behind that precept is commerce. Economics comes first, with naval strength being a necessary corollary to economies that rely on seaborne trade. A nation must have both a strong economy and a powerful Navy to become a “Great Sea Power”. The United States has exercised a hegemony for many decades that included its recognized position as an unrivaled naval power with the world’s largest economy. That hegemony appears to be disappearing rapidly. This SIG will consider who – in anyone – will guarantee freedom of the seas If the United States can no longer “go it alone”.
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- Steamboats on Kentucky's Ohio River (Hybrid) In Person
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Maximum Enrollment: 25
Kentucky’s northern boundary, the Ohio River, was the Commonwealth’s first thoroughfare, facilitating early settlement and downstream commerce. In 1811, the first Ohio river steamboat, the NEW ORLEANS, proved that this modern invention could go up the river as well. For decades following, the cry “Steamboat a comin’!” would bring locals to the riverbank hoping to catch a glimpse of an elegant craft pouring smoke and cinders out of its tall stacks as it rumbled and belched its way up or down the river, in the latter case at the incredible speed of 12 miles an hour! Boats connected to the Evansville, Louisville, Cincinnati and Maysville trades would stop at the small Kentucky towns along the river, providing an outlet for commerce and an opportunity for travel. This course discusses the first 50 years of steamboat history on the Kentucky side of La Belle Riviere, its triumphs and its tragedies.
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- Steamboats on Kentucky's Ohio River (Hybrid) Zoom
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Fee: $30.00
Dates: 2/2/2026 - 3/2/2026
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 5
Building: ZOOM
Room:
Instructor: Kenneth Golliher
Maximum Enrollment: 25
Kentucky’s northern boundary, the Ohio River, was the Commonwealth’s first thoroughfare, facilitating early settlement and downstream commerce. In 1811, the first Ohio river steamboat, the NEW ORLEANS, proved that this modern invention could go up the river as well. For decades following, the cry “Steamboat a comin’!” would bring locals to the riverbank hoping to catch a glimpse of an elegant craft pouring smoke and cinders out of its tall stacks as it rumbled and belched its way up or down the river, in the latter case at the incredible speed of 12 miles an hour! Boats connected to the Evansville, Louisville, Cincinnati and Maysville trades would stop at the small Kentucky towns along the river, providing an outlet for commerce and an opportunity for travel. This course discusses the first 50 years of steamboat history on the Kentucky side of La Belle Riviere, its triumphs and its tragedies.
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- The Axial Age - How New Answers to Old Questions Transformed the World
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Some twenty-five hundred years ago across the globe a new generation of thinkers and do-ers arose who were dismayed and discouraged by the chaos and violence that was sometimes all too dominant in their societies. This new generation of philosophers was able to imagine a world that could be different, and they began to influence others and to teach about a new way of being. Between about 800 and 300 BCE profound changes in schools of thought and societies gave rise to new ideas that have changed and continue to change the world. In Persia, there was Zoroaster. In India Vedantic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism began transforming people’s lives. Confucius and Lao-Tse in China began to teach about new ways of living. The concept of monotheism transformed Judaism in the Ancient Middle East, and in Greece new ideas of polity gave rise to the idea of democracy. Although rooted in a distant past, these ideas reshaped our world profoundly and continue to resonate in the lives of people today. In this course we will study these radical movements, considering what came before them, how they arose, and the many ways in which they are still reshaping our world today.
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- U.S. Bill of Rights - Amendment 1
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The US Supreme Court has decided many challenges to government actions to our “rights” under Amendment I of the Bill of Rights. Those decisions have evolved over time, largely related to “current events” at the time. To understand our current First Amendment Rights, we need to understand the evolution of the Court’s pronouncements over time.
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- Western Dreams and Ideals Underlying American Civilization (zoom) Zoom
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Fee: $30.00
Dates: 2/4/2026 - 3/4/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 5
Building: ZOOM
Room:
Instructor: Larry Hood
Maximum Enrollment: 20
American theologian Paul Tillich has written that culture is how people interact based on their common understanding of Truth, that is their value system, their religion. American sociologist Peter Berger has asserted that people crave meaning, that religion provides this and social solidarity with all united in a common understanding of reality. The Judeo-Christian religion, intertwined with Greek rationalism and idealism, underlies the western world’s ethos and its expressions in daily patterns of living. This course examines the creation of the Western Tradition, its values and world-view, and how American culture is one distillation of that tradition. It will consider the meaning and ramifications of Americans’ understanding of community, the individual’s proper relationship to community and the purpose and rightful authority of government. Since all history involves determining facts and framing (interpreting) facts, in true liberal arts tradition all participants will be encouraged to contribute their own understandings of the truths of history and discuss same.
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