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All Chesapeake Forum Library Courses are available FREE OF CHARGE. Registration is required to access the course recording links. Your Registration Confirmation from Chesapeake Forum will have the YouTube links for the course session(s), and in newer courses, will include links to handouts. If you want to be on our mailing list for the Course Offering mailer that goes out prior to each semester, be sure to include your full mailing address when registering.
- with Lynn Randle
- & Wayne Bell, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
We will examine the benefits of using plants that are native to our area in order to enhance biodiversity and adaptability to our soils while creating a habitat for birds and pollinators through all seasons.
- with Ray Vergne, MD
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
An overview of Neo-fascism in six European countries will bring us to the XXI century.
- with Raymond Vergne, MD
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
This course will identify the many faces of fascism in different countries while exploring the roots and origins of fascism and its relationship to religion and economics.
- with David O. Stewart, JD
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Summer 2021
Learn how George Washington's successes were hard-won through effort, discipline, and lifelong learning.
- with Pamela Conrad, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2022
- with Nancy Hesser, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
Do you know what flash fiction is? Join us for some lively discussions about evocative short stories and shared insights.
- 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 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 Yuan Liu, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2022
- with Margaret Rennels, M.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2023
- 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.
- with Forest Hansen, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
We will explore answers to these questions: What is the mind? What is wrong with typical answers to this question? Is there a better answer? Why is this important? Join us for a discussion as we explore the mind.
- with Sharon Pepukayi, Ed.D., Superintendent of Talbot County Public Schools
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2023
- with Rich Wagner, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
Join us as we conclude our spring semester course, Why is Life? We'll continue our discussion of the latest findings and theories about the nature of life, its origins on earth, and the universe.
- with Bev Williams
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2023
- with Phil Hesser, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
COURSE IS NOW OVER, BUT THE RECORDING IS STILL AVAILABLE! The Maryland Parks Service describes the landscape of Harriet Tubman’s early years as “virtually unaltered.” Join Phil, co-author of “The Old Home Is Not There,” on a sweep through Dorchester as he looks for continuity and change.
- with Lynn Randle
- & Susan Hauser
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2023