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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

Wed 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (4/8/2020)

Instructor : Cynthia Grieve 

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

Room :  WVMM

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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 (4/20/2020-4/22/2020)

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 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (4/7/2020-4/16/2020)

Instructor : Tom Smyth 

Location : Liesinger Hall Location : 
  Liesinger Hall.

Room :  LH 185

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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 (4/13/2020-4/22/2020)

Instructor : Cynthia Grieve 

Location : Fox Skelton Energy Institute Location : 
  Fox Skelton Energy Institute.

Room :  EI 125

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

Instructor : India Hayford 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 225

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  Expansionism and Control in the American West 

The American West was a difficult place to settle. If weather, terrain, or wild animals didn't make life tenuous, human intervention could end your li ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Weekly - Mon, Wed 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (2/10/2020-2/26/2020)

Instructor : Cynthia Grieve 

Location : Fox Skelton Energy Institute Location : 
  Fox Skelton Energy Institute.

Room :  EI 125

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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 (3/11/2020)

Instructor : India Hayford 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 225

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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 (3/2/2020-3/30/2020)

Instructor : Steven Gunderson 

Location : McMurry Career Studies Location : 
  McMurry Career Studies.

Room :  CS 160

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  Grace Raymond Hebard: The Pursuit of Wyoming 

From maps to myths, Grace Raymond Hebard embraced what she called “The Romance of Wyoming.” Explore that romance by examining Hebard’s incredible cont ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Weekly - Mon 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (3/9/2020-3/30/2020)

Instructor : Kylie McCormick 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 223

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  MacArthur and the South West Pacific in WWII 

In the South West Pacific theater during World War II, the Japanese forces fought mainly against the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the Philip ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Weekly - Thu 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (4/16/2020-4/23/2020)

Instructor : Ken Carpenter 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 223

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  Meet the Beatles 

The Beatles dominated the 1960s and are still culturally and musically important today. Their fame and talent morphed into a phenomenon known as Beatl ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Weekly - Tue 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (2/11/2020-3/3/2020)

Instructor : Carol Hall 

Location : Liesinger Hall Location : 
  Liesinger Hall.

Room :  LH 184

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  One Million Watts: Early Pirate Radio 

John R. Brinkley was a con man and radio pioneer in the 1930s. Among his many products, the good “doctor” sold male rejuvenation using goat glands and ...  View More

Section Number: OLLI

Cost: $12.00

Fees: $0.00

Tue 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (2/25/2020)

Instructor : Wayne Clements 

Location : Nolte Gateway Center Location : 
  Nolte Gateway Center.

Room :  GW 223

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