Past Study Groups

1. Ancient Western Art

2. Art History v European 20th Century

3. Architecture Designs: Fame or Folly

4. Art and Literature in the Jazz Age

5.German Expressionism

6. Buildings That Changed America

7. Cave Art

8. Dutch Golden Age Painters

9. Women Artists 20th Century to Present

10. Thought Provoking Art and Artists

11. Photojournalists

12. Visionary Architects

13. Non-Western Art History

14. Unique Buildings of Los Angeles

15. Art of the Portrait

16. Art of the Northern Renaissance

17. Art Forgeries and Fakes:  The Art of the Con

18. Expressionist Art

19. Photographs That Changed Perception

20. The Art, Architecture and History of Rome’s Churches

1. The Silk Road

2. American Moguls

3. Behavioral Economics – Why Do We Do What We Do

4. BRIC Countries: Brazil, Russia, India, and China

5. Decisions: Radical Choices That Changed the Course of Business

6. Modern Robber Barons

7. History of the Stock Market

8. Companies That Made America Great

9. Upstart Business: The New Economy

10. Media Conglomerates

11. Debt Crisis

12. How Ancient Legal Systems Influenced Our Laws

13. U.S. Economy Supremacy vs. China and India – How Long? 

14. Whistleblowers:  Heroes or Villains?

15. Vital Commodities That Shaped the World

1. Comparing US Foreign Policy Problems

2. Hot Topics

3. Dictators

4. Africa

5. Iran at the Crossroad

6. New Yorker Articles

7. Middle East – The Boiling Pressure Cooker

8. Time Magazine 50 Best Podcasts

9. Will My Vote Count?

10. New Yorker This Week

11. Presidential Election of 2016

12. Breaking News, Making News and Shaping Opinion: The Impact of American Journalism 

13. Banned Books/Burning Books

14. Cult of the Leader Around the World

15. America’s Immigration Dilemma

1. Civil War

2. Evolution and Impact of Large American Cities

3. Dirtiest Campaigns in the US

4. Early American Women

9. Journalists and Their Impact on American History

11. Political “ISMS”

12. Leading Up To WWI 1900-1914

13. Great Decisions

14. Soul of America – the Battle of Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham

15. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

16. America’s Westward Expansion 

17. The Cold War 

18. Nobel Peace Prize Winners 

19. The 1619 Project

1. Critical Turning Points in World History

2. Cultures of Southeast Asia

3. Fall of the Roman Empire

4. India, Past, Present, and Future

5. Latin America History and Culture

6. Political “ISMS”

7. Leading Up To WWI 1900-1914

8. Great Decisions

9. The Cold War 

10. Nobel Peace Prize Winners

11. Revolutions That Changed the World

12. Africa

13.Iran at the Crossroads

14.The Middle East -The Boiling Pressure Cooker

15. The Cult of the Leader Around the World

1. Amendments to the US Constitution

2. All You Wanted to Know About Impeachment

3. Famous Trials

4. Significant Supreme Court Decisions

5. Crime, Punishment and Society

6. The Supreme Court Justices 

7. Constitution Convention of 1787

8. Legal Systems of the World

9. Making of the U.S. Constitution

10. Second Amendment and Mass Homicides

11. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin 

12. The Supreme Court: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

13. The Burden of Proof

1. Best American Short Stories

2. American History Through Fiction

3. American Minority Writers – 20th Century

4. African Trilogy

5. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

6. Judas by Amos Oz

7. Chekhov

8. Literary Satire

9. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 

10. Myth and Mythology   

11. Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

12. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Part I and II

13. Charles Dickens and His World

14. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

15. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

16. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

17.  Melville’s Short Stories

18. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

19. The Ascent of Humans by Charles Eisenstein
20. Banned Books/Burning Books

1. Aging and Ageless

2. Beautiful Gardens of the World

3. Collections

4. Time Magazine’s “ The 50 Best Podcasts to Listen to Right Now”

5. Famous Murders that Shocked the World

6. Great Urban Parks of the World

7. Lesser Known Capital Cities of the World

8. Great Scams

9. National Park System

10. Olympics

11. Pirates

12. Shhh! Secret Societies

13. Seeds of Change

14. Spices: What are Their Stories

15. Ted Talks

1. 21st Century Genetics

2. Advances in Medicine

3. From the Moon to Mars

4. Artificial Intelligence 

5. Earthquakes and Volcanoes

6. Cyber: The Good, the Bad, the Amazing

7. Climate Change and Migration

8. Cutting Edge Communication

9. Biomedical Ethics

10. Emerging Technologies

11. Archeology

12. Cosmology

13. Great Leaps Forward in Medical Science

14. How Diseases Changed World History

15. Human Genetic Odyssey – Group I and II 

16. The Wonderful World of Fungi

17. Medicine Past and Present

1. American Moguls

2. Dynamic Duos

3. Brothels

4. Dissenters and Provocateurs 

5. Etiquette Around the World

6. Famous Manhunts

7. Evolution of American Cartoons, Comic Strips, and Comic Books

8. Federal Regulatory Agencies 

9. American Political Pundits

10. Famous Spies and Their Impact on History 

11. Our Aging Population:  Impact & Implications

12. America’s Immigration Dilemma

1. Academy Award Doesn’t Go To?

2. Academy Award Winners

3. Courtroom Dramas

4. Broadway Plays

5. Cultural Depiction in Films

6. Chekov Plays

7. Do Movies Shape Our Politics or Vice Versa

8. Broadway Shows – Tony Awards

9. Documentaries

10. Foreign Language Films

11. Iconic TV Shows of the 1960’s and 1970’s

1. My Favorite Trip ( Part I and II )

2. Let’s Travel to Spain

3. Let’s Travel to Japan

4. Let’s Travel to Great Britain

5. Istambul

1. 20th Century Composers

2. American Folk Music

3. American Musicals

4. Broadway Musicals

5. Chamber Music

6. Choral Music

7. Dance in All Its Splendor

7. Film Composers

8. History of Opera

9. Jazz

10. Jazz Piano Titan

11. La Boheme and Porgy and Bess

12. Musicals

13. Rock ‘n’ Roll and American Culture

14. Rock Legends of Laurel Canyon in 1960s and 1970s

15. Top 10 Russian Composers

16. Carmen and Aida 

17. “The British Invasion” in America: 1964-1967

18. The Women of Rock, Pop and Soul

1. 20th Century Philosophers

2. Ancient Greek Philosophy

3. Bible as History

4. Christianity

5. Asian Religions

6. Dead Sea Scrolls

7. Ethics in Everyday Life

8. Existentialism

9. Exodus

10. Great Theories of Mankind

11. Heroes, Heroines, and Legends of the Old Testament

12. Islam

13. Islamic Culture Around the World

14. Philosophers – Their Pursuit of Wisdom, the Movements They Inspired, and Their Relevance Today

15. Religion and Politics in the USA

16. Myths and Their Meanings