Lectures

Europe

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British Isles & Ireland

• Shakespeare’s London: Stages, Plague Years, and the Globe

• The Oxford–Cambridge Story: Colleges, Crowns, and Curious Traditions

• Hadrian’s Wall: Rome’s Northern Limit

• Mary, Queen of Scots: Romance, Intrigue, and Tragedy

• Celtic Shores: Saints, Scholars, and Stone Crosses of Ireland

• Churchill at Sea: Convoys, Courage, and the Fate of Britain

• Titanic & the North Atlantic: The Ship, the Myth, the Lessons

• Turner and the Sea: Storms, Steam, and the Sublime

Northern France & the Seine

• The Bayeux Tapestry: A 70-Meter Chronicle of 1066

• Normandy’s D-Day Beaches: Turning the Tide, 1944

• The Louvre’s Greatest Hits: From Hammurabi to the Mona Lisa

• Monet on the Seine: Water, Light, and the Birth of Impressionism

Low Countries & the Rhine

• Rembrandt’s Amsterdam: Portraits, Profits, and the Golden Age

• The Dutch Masters: From Frans Hals to Vermeer’s Pearl

• Vermeer’s Quiet Light: How a Small Studio Shaped a Big World

• The Rhine & the Romans: Empire, Frontiers, and Wine

Danube & Central Europe

• The Habsburgs on the Danube: Palaces, Power, and Waltzes

• Prague’s Bridges & Gilded Spires: A Thousand Years in an Afternoon

Baltic & Scandinavia

• The Hanseatic League: Medieval Traders of the Baltic

• Catherine the Great: Enlightenment on the Neva

• Oslo to Bergen: Fjords, Folk Tales, and Edvard Munch’s “Scream”

• The Vikings of the North Sea: Sagas, Ships, and Settlements

Iberian Atlantic & Bay of Biscay

• Lisbon’s Age of Discovery: Navigators, Maps, and Spices

• The Bay of Biscay to Bordeaux: Monks, Monasteries, and Wine Roads

• Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Rewrote the Rules

• The Battle of Trafalgar: Nelson, Napoléon, and Naval Revolution

Western/Central Mediterranean (Spain–France–Italy)

• Gaudí’s Barcelona: Nature, Faith, and Stone in Motion

• The Medici and Florence: Banking on the Renaissance

• The Colosseum to the Vatican: Rome’s Eternal Conversations

Adriatic

• Venice Afloat: Republic, Ritual, and the Power of Water

• Dubrovnik & the Adriatic Republics: Walls, Wealth, and World Heritage

Eastern Mediterranean & Aegean

• The Parthenon Story: Democracy in Marble

• The Rosetta Stone: Cracking the Code of Ancient Egypt

 

North America

 

New England & Canadian Maritimes (incl. Hudson/Seine-style river & coastal)

• Boston to Bar Harbor: Lighthouses, Cod, and the Yankee Coast

• The Pilgrims & Plymouth Colony: Myths, Meals, and Realities

• The Gilded Age by the Sea: Newport Mansions and Millionaires

• Halifax and the North Atlantic: Explosions, Convoys, and Courage

• Québec City & New France: Fortresses, Faith, and French America

• The Hudson River School: American Landscapes, American Identity

• The Erie Canal: How a Ditch Connected a Nation

Great Lakes & American Heartland

• Great Lakes Shipwrecks: From the Griffon to the Edmund Fitzgerald

• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Heartland: Prairie Houses and American Modernity

 

Mississippi River System

• The Mississippi & Mark Twain: Steamboats, Stories, and the American River

• New Orleans & the Birth of Jazz: Creole Roots, River Rhythms

• Civil War on the Rivers: Gunboats, Ironclads, and Vicksburg

Pacific Northwest & Columbia River

• Lewis & Clark to the Pacific: Discovery, Diplomacy, and the Columbia

Alaska & the Inside Passage

• Alaska’s Indigenous Art: Totem Poles, Traditions, and Tlingit Stories

• The Klondike Gold Rush: Boomtowns, Trails, and Tall Tales

Gulf Coast & Southwest (Repositioning & Land Extensions)

• San Antonio to Santa Fe: Missions, Pueblos, and the Spanish Frontier

• The Space Race at Sea Level: Cape Canaveral, Cruises, and Cold War Dreams

Tampa Bay

• Tampa 1898: Gateway to the Spanish-American War

• Ybor City: Cigars, Immigrants, and the Making of Modern Tampa

• From Doughboys to Dreamers: Tampa Bay After WWI and the Roaring ’20s

• Rails, Resorts, and a Gilded Gulf: Henry Plant and the Invention of Tampa Bay Tourism

• Crossroads on the Gulf: Black Tampa, Latin Tampa, and the Sound of the City (1900s–1930s)