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Get your history fix here. Our history classes cover local, state, and world history.


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  Afternoon at the Veteran's Museum 

Join us for an afternoon at the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum. Meet the staff for an informational tour, participate in a scavenger hunt, and enjoy ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $7.00

Thu 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (10/8/2020)

Instructor : Cynthia Grieve 

Location : Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum Location : 
  Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum.

Room :  WVMM

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  Afternoon at the Veteran's Museum 

Join us for an afternoon at the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum. Meet the staff for an informational tour, participate in a scavenger hunt, and enjoy ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $7.00

Thu 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (10/22/2020)

Instructor : Cynthia Grieve 

Location : Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum Location : 
  Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum.

Room :  WVMM

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  Age of Aquarius 

A counterculture developed in the United States and spread throughout Western Europe, lasting from around 1964 to 1972, which coincided with America’s ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Weekly - Thu 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (10/1/2020-10/8/2020)

Instructor : Carol Hall 

Location : Liesinger Hall Location : 
  Liesinger Hall.

Room :  LH 184

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  Battle of Little Bighorn: In the Movies 

We will view excerpts from movies that dramatize the Battle of Little Big Horn from a Hollywood perspective, filmed at different periods. We will comp ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Daily - Mon,Tue,Wed 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (9/21/2020-9/23/2020)

Instructor : Monte Henrie 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 223

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  Be Czar: A History of Czarist Russia 

For centuries the Russian Bear has frightened, amazed, and bemused the world. Russia is a land of contradictions, paradoxes, and epic upheavals, yet i ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Weekly - Tue, Thu 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (10/6/2020-10/15/2020)

Instructor : Tom Smyth 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 222

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  Captain Sally Louisa Tompkins: Confederate Angel 

Sally Louisa Tompkins established Robertson Hospital in 1861 to care for the wounded following the First Battle of Manassas. Over the next 45 months, ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Weekly - Wed 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (10/7/2020-10/7/2020)

Instructor : India Hayford 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 222

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  Captain Sally Louisa Tompkins: Confederate Angel 

Sally Louisa Tompkins established Robertson Hospital in 1861 to care for the wounded following the First Battle of Manassas. Over the next 45 months, ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Weekly - Wed 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (10/14/2020-10/14/2020)

Instructor : India Hayford 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 222

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  Cattle Kate and the Myth of the West 

Cattle Kate (Ellen Watson) is an example of all that was good and bad about western expansion and the “myth of the West.” Some see her as a victim of ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Weekly - Mon, Wed 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (11/30/2020-12/9/2020)

Instructor : Cynthia Grieve 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 223

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  Christmas on the Frontier 

The Western frontier was a cold and unforgiving place during the long winters of the 1800s. People had to find ways to brighten the long nights and ke ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $4.00

Mon 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (12/14/2020)

Instructor : Wayne Clements 

Location : Ft Caspar Museum Location : 
  Ft Caspar Museum.

Room :  Ft Caspar

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  Elizabeth Patton Crockett 

Elizabeth Patton Crockett was the second wife of the famous David "Davy" Crockett. In this reenactment, she talks about life on the Tennessee frontier ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Wed 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (11/4/2020)

Instructor : India Hayford 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 223

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  Fanny Kelly: Ambush on the Oregon Trail 

On a beautiful summer day in 1864, a small group of travelers on their way to the Idaho gold fields were attached by a band of Sioux on the banks of t ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Wed 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (12/2/2020)

Instructor : India Hayford 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 223

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  Five Studies: The First Five Books of the Bible 

Study the first five books of the Bible: Genesis through Deuteronomy. These books are a complete unit and foundational to understanding the Bible and ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Weekly - Mon 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (9/21/2020-10/19/2020)

Instructor : Steven Gunderson 

Location : McMurry Career Studies Location : 
  McMurry Career Studies.

Room :  CS 160

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