Course Library
All Chesapeake Forum Library Courses are available FREE OF CHARGE. After clicking the “Course Details” button to open a course, you will find the YouTube links for the course session(s), and in newer courses, links to any handouts that might have been provided, at the bottom of the course description. Simply click the link(s) to get to the YouTube Video recording.
ENJOY!
- with Forest Hansen, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Summer 2021
This course uses easily accessible dialogues by Plato to explore the days prior to and after the trial of Socrates as well as his defense in the face of a death sentence.
- with Gerard Marconi
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2024
- with Raymond Vergne
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2024
- with Ron Lesher
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2024
- with Phil Hesser, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
COURSE IS NOW OVER, BUT THE RECORDING IS STILL AVAILABLE. The Ku Klux Klan made its appearance across Delmarva in the early 1920s. Join us to examine who introduced the Klan to Delmarva, who joined the "Invisible Empire," and who contributed to its decline.
- with Forest Hansen, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2024
- with Stephanie Alexander
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2024
- with Yuan Liu, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2022
- with Thomas Mackay
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2026
Explore how railroads shaped Eastern Shore economies throughout history – and consider what the future of rail transport might look like.
- with Katherine Marconi
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2025
- with David O. Stewart
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
(Recording Now Available!) Family history or family lies? This tale of hard times on the early Maine coast was inspired by David’s mother’s family. The ‘new land’ was fraught with hunger and meager shelter where death was always lurking and warfare was ubiquitous.
- with Darrin Lowery, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2025
- with Owen Bailey
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2026
Gain the tools to better understand —and influence—the development decisions shaping the future of the Eastern Shore.
- with Margaret Rennels, M.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2023
- with CDR Jonathan S. Gibbs, USN, PhD., P.E.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2024
- with Paul Callahan
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2024
- with Mickey Terrone
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2024
- with Lynn Randle
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2024
- with Harrison Jackson
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
COURSE IS NOW OVER, BUT THE RECORDING IS STILL AVAILABLE! Join Pickering Creek Audubon Center naturalist, Harrison Jackson, for a dive into the strange aquatic animals that live in the Chesapeake and coastal bays of Maryland.