The History of Freedom Part II
Dates: January 28 - March 11, 2025
Meets: Tu from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: Center for Lifelong Learning 154
No Fee: $0.00
Please note: This course requires membership in OLLI Membership Dues 2024-2025 and 2025 OLLI Winter Term.
(This course was taught at AUM OLLI eight years ago, and this Winter term course is the second of three planned terms).
It can be argued that one simple idea – the concept of freedom – has been the driving force of Western civilization and may be the most influential intellectual force the world has ever known. But what is freedom, exactly? Join historian and classical scholar J. Rufus Fears as he tells freedom’s dramatic story from ancient Greece to our own day, exploring a concept so close to us we may never have considered it with the thoroughness it deserves. The course will delve into the meaning of human freedom. What did freedom mean to Abraham Lincoln – or to Robert E. Lee? To Franklin Roosevelt? Winston Churchill? Martin Luther King? What does it mean to us today?
We are proud and honored to be able to continue this series of courses on behalf of and in memory of “The Colonel - Tom McCormick.” Please note that we do not try to fill Tom’s boots. We will not even try to emulate Tom’s instruction techniques, charm, and wit. He will be with us in spirit, however.
Instructors: Herb Shivers and Jim Barber
Fee: | $0.00 |
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Hours: | 7.50 |
Center for Lifelong Learning 154