Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps Why do smart people make dumb financial choices? This lecture...
The End of the Old World Order, 1530 to 1650 The Reformation and the Civil War, two events a century...
Picturesque Engineering: Telford's Highland Roads and Bridges In partnership with the Fulbright Commission. In 1819, Thomas Telford...
From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers For many modern thinkers, the lawgiver has been important as...
Being a Guitarist in the Time of Byron and Shelley With a player’s insight (a guitar of 1825 is my...
The Londonderry Plantation from 1641 until the Disengagement at the end of the Nineteenth Century The events that led to the Londonderry Plantation had momentous...
Ghost of Scandals Past: A Short History of Financial Scandals The litany of great financial scandals is long, and sadly...
Taking the Constitution into the Classroom The U.S. Constitution had to be formed through debate before...
Haydn in London: The Revolutionary Drawing Room This concert looks at 18th century music making and the...