PRESENTATIONS

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OLLI:

• History of the Plantagenet Kings of England (July 2, 2014)
• Genealogy Computer Lab (twice)
• Genetic Genealogy (four times)
  • Part One (The Y Chromosome)
  • Part Two (The rest of it)
• Beginning Genealogy (four times)
• An Introduction to the Royal Lineages of Britain (April 26, 2014)
• Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) (May 6, 2014)
• Frederico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (September 17, 2014)
• John Sayles' Matewan (March 2, 2015)
• Percey Adlon's Bagdad Cafe (September 2, 2015)
• The Honest Genealogist (December 12, 2015)
• Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (February 29, 2016)
• A Film Unfinished (OLLI - May 6, 2016)
• Zoot Suit
• Hud
• The English Anarchy (1135-1154) (Dec 3, 2016)

HSU History Conference:

• A Community Divided: Beverly, (West) Virginia During the Civil War and the Battle of Rich Mountain (2013)
• Rashomon in Context (2014, slide presentation only)

Other Venues:

• Lust For Life
• Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (Eureka Public Library, 14 July 2015)
• Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (Eureka Public Library, 14 April 2015)
• Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth (Eureka Public Library, 17 Jan 2015)
• The Ox-Bow Incident: Truth and Justice in the Old West (Eureka Public Library, 22 July 2014)
• Genentic Genealogy and the Cooleys of Stokes County, North Carolina (Silverton, Oregon, June 12, 2010)
• Genetic Genealogy (Washington DC, July 2012)
• The Present State of the Cooley DNA Project (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 1 Aug 2014)

UPCOMING

• Genealogy Computer Lab (three sessions, summer 2016)
• Beginning Genealogy (three sessions, summer 2016)

CONSIDERING

• American Memories of Culloden Moor: The Battle, the End of the Stuarts, and the Road to American Independence (December 1, 2014)
• Survey of the House of Wessex
• The Barons at Runnymede and the Road to the Magna Carta
• The Plantagenets
  • Session One: Empire Gained, Lost, and Regained, 1154-1400 (possibly four hours)
  • Session Two: The Plantagenets at War (possibly four hours)
• The Tragic Life and Tumultuous Reign of King Henry VI of England
• Version Two: Survey of the Royal Lineages of Britain (possibly four hours)
• The Assassin's Brother: The Life and Times of Edwin Booth
• At the Movies with the Plantagenets