Come to Darien Library on Mondays, starting Oct. 22 for a four-week series on the “The Civil War: Revolt of the Planters” and learn about the tension between those who enlist the agrarian agenda and those that desire to industrialize. Can’t make the live event? Check out the video recordings at DarienLibrary.tv (but see them soon — they aren’t posted on the website forever.)
Each lecture takes place from 3 to 4 p.m. on Mondays, beginning Oct. 22 in the Community Room at Darien Library.
Come to Darien Library on Mondays for a four-part lecture series on the “The Civil War: Revolt of the Planters” and learn about the tension between those who enlisted in the agrarian agenda and those with a desire to industrialize. Can’t make the live event? Check out the video recordings at DarienLibrary.tv. Each lecture takes place from 3 to 4 p.m. on Mondays, beginning Oct. 22 in the Community Room at Darien Library.
Come to Darien Library on Mondays for a four-week series on the “The Civil War: Revolt of the Planters” and learn about the tension between those who enlisted in the agrarian agenda and those who had a desire to industrialize. Can’t make the live event? Check out the video recordings at DarienLibrary.tv. Each lecture takes place from 3 to 4 p.m. on Mondays, beginning Oct. 22 in the Community Room at Darien Library.
Come to Darien Library on Mondays, starting Oct. 22 for a four-week series on the “The Civil War: Revolt of the Planters” and learn about the tension between those who enlist the agrarian agenda and those that desire to industrialize. Each lecture takes place from 3 to 4 p.m. on Mondays, beginning Oct. 22 in the Community Room at Darien Library. — announcements from Darien Library
WEEK ONE: Oct.
Come to Darien Library on Mondays, starting Oct. 22 for a four-week series on the “The Civil War: Revolt of the Planters” and learn about the tension between those who enlist the agrarian agenda and those that desire to industrialize. Each lecture takes place from 3 to 4 p.m. on Mondays, beginning Oct. 22 in the Community Room at Darien Library. — announcements from Darien Library
WEEK ONE: Oct.
Join us for a lecture on the 1903 Platt Amendment. With President McKinley’s eviction of the Spanish from Cuba, the Cuban people soon learned they were trading one overseer for another. For with the Platt Amendment–named for its presenter in Congress, Senator Orville Platt of Connecticut–a DIKTAT was impressed upon the Cuban people denying them access to a long cherished sovereignty denied them while under the yoke of Spanish rule. The Platt Amendment showcased the new definition of Manifest Destiny, from an agenda of Continental expansion to a program for globalism. About the Presenter
Mark Albertson is the historical research editor at Army Aviation magazine and is a long-time member of the United States Naval Institute.
The fourth and final lecture in a series on the Cold War at Darien Library will be presented from 3 to 4 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 19. The subject: How the Soviet sojourn into Afghanistan in 1979 helped to bring down the Soviet Union; and, helped to transform the Cold War. Darien Library’s announcement:
With the Soviet collapse, America was left as the world’s sole Superpower. Afghanistan, though, unleashed militant Islamic Fundamentalism, helping to transform the Cold War.
Join us for a four-week introductory class on one of the globe’s most fascinating and misunderstood religions. In 570 Muhammad ibn Abdallah, a/k/a, the one true Prophet, Muhammad, was born. This session will explore his organization of a movement that has come to be known as Islam. ___________
— an announcement from Darien Library
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In so doing he charted the course for the expansion of a vast empire, one that would see to the massive conversion of peoples until finally, today, Islam boasts over 1 billion adherents. With his death, though, the seeds were planted for a discord among the Faithful which afflicts their beloved religion to the present day, the Sunni-Shia Split.
