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History Programs

  1. The Gilded Age – New vs. Old Money
    The late 1800’s were an era of wealth — for the few — who were divided between those who made their money and who inherited.  See Wealth!
  2. Queen Victoria – Love and Madness
    An unlikely queen who ruled as the world changed, whose legacy remains one of elegance
  3. The Victorian Era
    Industrial age wealth for some, poverty for most; factories, fashions, homes, and a navy to rule
  4. Four Great Cathedrals Napoleon Visited
    Moscow’s Christ the Savior, France’s Saint Denis, Sante-Chapelle, and Notre Dame
  5. NYC’s Lost Penn Station
    Designed to be the gateway to a great city, to have you arrive like a God; today visitors scurry in like a rat.  Be amazed at its magnificence.
  6. Grand Central Terminal and its Railroads
    Why not a “Station”? Commodore Vanderbilt, the NY Central, secret stairs, and more
  7. 250 Years of Flight – from Horse-buggy to Moon-buggy
    Travel from Earth to the Moon in one human lifetime, beginning with the dream of flight
  8. The World’s Great Canals
    Egypt’s Suez, China’s Grand, Frances du Midi, NJ’s Morris, NY’s Erie, and the Panama
  9. Panama Canal History
    Once the largest, costliest – and one of the deadliest – engineering project in history
  10. The History of Battleships
    The race for behemoths like USS Arizona, Hood, Bismarck, Yamato and Musashi.
  11. Six Great Fortresses
    The world’s greatest defensive works awe; yet all are now obsolete.
  12. Six Unexpected “Forts”
    China’s Great Wall, WWI’s Western Front, and places like Pearl Harbor.
  13. Forgotten American Heroes
    Desmond Doss, Father Watters, Major Morris, and those at Jockey Hollow
  14. Forgotten WW I – History, Stupidity, Technology, and Horror (New for 2026)
    Before, during, and after WW I… tens of millions died; empires erased; the modern World born.
  15. 1,000 Years of Moscow History
    1,000 years of history seen by an American working in the Kremlin
  16. The Whippany Burying Yard – 300 Years of History
    Building America: Geography, Resources, Explosions, War, Religion, Invention