Upcoming College, Library and Senior Center Events

November 2025:

  • Institute for Continued Learning, Roosevelt University, Schaumburg: The Salem Witch Trials and the Power of Fear

  • Dickinson Hall, Lake Forest: Pilgrims, Indians and the First Thanksgiving

And programs at retirement communities such as Encore Village in Schaumburg, Trulee in Evanston, and Cordia in Westmont

December, 2025

  • Ela Township Senior Center: Keeping Christmas: Looking in the Windows of the Past

  • St. Charles Library: Keeping Christmas: Looking in the Windows of the Past

  • North Shore Senior Center: Crisis of Freedom: America, 1790 - 1815

    And programs at retirement communities such as Addolorata in Wheeling and Sedgebrook in Lincolnshire.

January, 2026

  • Ela Township Senior Center: The Problem With Tom: Jefferson and Slavery

  • Deerfield Library: America Dreamin:' 19th-Century Utopian Communities

  • Geneva Library: The Cannons of Ticonderoga: A Revolutionary War Story

  • Barrington Area Library: Debating Independence: The American Revolution in 1776

  • Skokie Library: Debating Independence: The American Revolution in 1776

  • North Shore Senior Center, Northfield: The Cannons of Ticonderoga: A Revolutionary War Story

Karen Rinaldo, "The First Thanksgiving-1621" [sic], c. 1995

Thomkins Matteson, "The Witch Trial of George Jacobs." Public domain.

Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, 1863.

William Walcutt, "Pulling Down the Statue of George III at Bowling Green, July 9, 1776," 1857.