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History and Government
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Global empire building has a long history reaching back over two thousand years. Yet we take for granted our arrangement of two hundred nation states ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/06/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Mon .

Weekly - Mon 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/6/2023-6/12/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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Tom Reiss's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Crown, 2012), will be ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/06/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Mon .

Weekly - Mon 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (3/6/2023-6/12/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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When asked why the colonists revolted, Bernard Bailyn—the noted historian of the American colonial and revolutionary periods—replied, “because they we ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/07/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Tue .

Weekly - Tue 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/7/2023-6/6/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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In The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 (Penguin Random House, 2016), renowned Cambridge professor and prolific author Richard Evans gives us a magn ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/07/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Tue .

Weekly - Tue 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (3/7/2023-6/6/2023)

Closed
 
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"A Republic if you can keep it," was Benjamin Franklin's reply when asked what type of government had been formed. To be sure, the skepticism he expre ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/08/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/8/2023-6/7/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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The American Revolution pitted the untrained, poorly equipped, rag-tag colonial militia against the mightiest fighting forces in the world at that tim ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/08/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/8/2023-6/7/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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The presidency of Donald Trump was controversial and considered by some to be inconsistent with the values of a democratic United States. We all lived ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/08/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/8/2023-6/7/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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In this study group, we will study the complicated history of Russia by focusing on the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family. The Romanovs ruled Rus ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/08/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (3/8/2023-6/7/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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This study group will examine the sweeping history of American foreign policy, divided into four distinct eras. Although the author asserts that a cou ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/09/23

Days of the Week : Weekly - Thu .

Weekly - Thu 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/9/2023-6/8/2023)

Email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
 
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