History Talks

Topics Include:

* Albany's Hero: Henry Johnson

* Social Utopias of Upstate NY

* Helderberg Anti-Rent War

* Mary Edwards Walker of Oswego and Women's Rights

* Saratoga Waters & Wellness

* The Underground Railroad Runs Through Albany, NY

* New York 1969 - the Center of the Music World Runs Through Harlem and Woodstock

* Albany and New York's Anti-Masonic Movement

* Prohibition Era Albany

* The Story of Ann Lee, Founder of the Shakers

* Forts of New York: 5 Historic Upstate Forts

Topics Include:

* Beatle-o-logy (Parts 1 & 2)

* History of Tiki Bars

* The 25 Greatest Swords of History, Legend, and Literature

Topics Include:

* The Founding of Rome

* Greek Mythology: The Basics

Topics Include:

* The Vietnam War in Songs

* The Transcendentalists

* Henry David Thoreau... in Minnesota?

* What was the American Renaissance?

* Where Does the Idea of American Exceptionalism Originate?

* 19C Pseudo-sciences

* How Baby Boomers Changed the World

* USA @ 250: Our Story

* Little Bighorn and the Great Sioux War

* 25 Most Influential Works of American Culture (according to The Washington Post)

Topics Include:

* World War One: Essential Facts

* Locke v. Rousseau - Does it Matter?

* What Does "Western Civilization" Mean?

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Book Talk: J. Kramer, author of Representative Americans: Emerson's American Scholar Revisited talks about his new book, published Fall 2026