OLLI101578 - How Did We Get Here? Napoleon & His Legacy
Course Description
HOW DID WE GET HERE? – NAPOLEON & HIS LEGACY
Instructor: Steve Pollack
Day of Week: Thursdays
Dates: June 6 – July 11 (5 sessions)
No Class: July 4
Time: 9:00 PM – 10:00 AM
Location: Hybrid at Ambler
The entire world was embroiled in European and American expansion during the Napoleonic era. The industrial revolution affected everyone. Europe experienced the cultural impact of Napoleon and America experienced a viral evangelical expansion that redefined the social and political culture of its early growth. Art and literature began to vocally and visually call for romantic, bigger-than-life ideas, the rights of women, the beginnings of socialism and grand nationalism. England eventually established itself as the empire where the sun never sets.
Maximum: 100 Online/30 In-person
Instructor Bio: Steve Pollack is a performer, director, lecturer and actor who has appeared in venues ranging from Grand Opera to Blues and Pop; an actor and director of stage plays; and a lecturer and teacher in schools, community organizations, and private associations. He has performed in many local and regional theaters in opera, concert, and musical theater and was one of the original members of Peter Nero’s Voices of the Pops in Philadelphia. He lectures often on subjects of culture, art, history, music, and social change with specific focus on the critical, ironic, or trivial connections between historical events. He was educated at Franklin & Marshall College and Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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