History & Culture
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The writings of Edgar Allan Poe influenced artists like Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin to create paintings. Gertrude Stein once told Picasso that he abstracted art the way she abstracted her writing. Throughout history several famous writers and artists have influenced each other's creations. This presentation will focus on the influences between pairs like: Eugene Delacroix and Charles Baudelaire, Auguste Rodin and Rainer Maria Rilke, Roger Fry and Virginia Woolf, Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein.
*This course will be offered online via Zoom. A meeting link and login information will be emailed to registrants within one week of the course start date.
In this course, review and analyze the lives and public careers of candidates who ran in U.S. presidential elections and lost throughout history. Examine their early years, public and private careers, decisions on running for the presidency, campaigns for president, accomplishments and failures outside of losing the presidency, and more. This course will resurrect the lives of these candidates that had their “15 minutes of fame” and then faded from public view after the election. Part I covers presidential elections from 1796 to 1824. Instructor: Patrick Heline.
*This course will be offered online via Zoom. A meeting link and login information will be emailed to registrants within one week of the course start date.
The United States has had a two-party system for much of its history, and the major parties have dominated presidential elections for most of U.S. history. Since the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, there have been 51 unsuccessful major party candidates for President of the United States. Join historian Patrick Heline to explore the motivations and missteps of those who ran unsuccessfully and their lives after defeat. Part II covers 1824 to 1860.
*This course will be offered online via Zoom. A meeting link and login information will be emailed to registrants within one week of the course start date.