On Sunday, March 26th, EHST will honor Women's History Month by viewing  a portion of an award-winning documentary, Girl Rising. We will meet at our usual time of 1:30pm - 3:30pm.  (Book Club follows at 3:30pm.)  Following the partial viewing of the film we will have a discussion. The fifth anniversary edition of Girl Rising travels the […]

This week's program will feature a play by Solomon Gibson, III and Fred Breidt based on the debate that took place in the Student Union of Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, on February 18, 1965. William F. Buckley and James A. Baldwin addressed the proposition that the American dream was at the expense of the American Negro (in the parlance of the time). Join us for this historic […]

EHST will present a video about the high arctic permafrost melt, one phenomenon of climate change.  Bernice Notenboom leads an expedition across Alaska to the North Pole to explore the ticking time bomb of the Permafrost Melt and the release of Carbon Dioxide and Methane. In this film, she climbs cliffs of frozen soil, explores […]

The Dutch established New Amsterdam at the mouth of the Hudson River in the 17th century, and Jacob Klaeysen established a Dutch family in western New York in the 20th century. AEU Leader Anne Klaeysen explores her roots through the works of two Dutch Humanist philosophers, Erasmus and Spinoza. Anne Klaeysen is Leader Emerita of the […]

IDS Forensic Resource Counsel Sarah Olson and School of Government faculty member Phil Dixon will present on the use and misuse of forensic science in criminal prosecutions. While rules of evidence require expert testimony to be based on sufficient data and reliable methods, junk science remains a problem within the criminal justice system. Sarah and […]