Kevin Manzel
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History. Music. Books. Running. Learning. Always learning. VP Content Strategy, The Great Courses.
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Stori3d Past
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There's something fabulous about 14th C Italian painting. It's not quite Renaissance yet. There's still a two-dimensionality, an overlayering of allegory. But people are starting to become true people - real individuals, recognizable. There are *huge* things bubbling up, almost ready to burst forth.
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Woot!
@stephenressler.bsky.social
and The Great Courses are nominated for a WCSFP Buzzies Award in Innovative Programming for Understanding the Marvels of Medieval Technology!! Going up against 3 Nat Geo titles incl Ocean with David Attenborough š
2 days ago
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Lecture 8, Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt, 8:45-9:35, may be the greatest 50 seconds in Great Courses professor history. His commentary is pure discursive genius. Go listen. Now.
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Of 17th c Dutch painter Frans Hals, William Kloss said, āHis portraits sometimes flatter. They always reveal.ā So much is said there in so few words. Eloquent and economical š š
4 days ago
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A couple days late for Halloween, but I am psyched to read this. What a genius idea for an anthology by
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4 days ago
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I just remembered that The Great Courses used to play our own lectures as our hold āmusicā and I think that should be mandated by law everywhere for every company.
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. šļø
7 days ago
My series w/ The Great Courses, "Forgotten America: Rediscovering Events that Changed the Nation," is on Audible. I noticed this review & had to laugh. Still got 3 stars out of them! For super cool histories of inoculations, the Capitol Crawl, or the Hayes Code, check it out! šļø
adbl.co/3HEk4q6
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Must I always cry at the end of a good book? I feel manipulated⦠but I still love it.
7 days ago
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Todayās running shirt is my new favorite running shirt.
7 days ago
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āā¦panicked high schoolers were cramming about Julius Caesarās exploits as a Roman general and statesman.ā
apnews.com/article/aust...
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Studying the wrong ancient Roman ruler gets Australian high school seniors out of a history exam
Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler ā Augustus Caesar inst...
https://apnews.com/article/australia-roman-history-exam-high-school-3d39f66e38327d45f91ab236d90728d5
9 days ago
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Karl Lewis
9 days ago
Psh⦠Netlfix? I binge-watch the Great Courses.
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Happy birthday to this good boy!
11 days ago
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Tech malfunctions prevented me from listening to anything during Marine Corps Marathon today. As a result, I did get to hear incredible crowd support and an incredible camaraderie among 40k runners. A rare and special thing these days.
14 days ago
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While running Marine Corps Marathon this Sunday I was going to listen to a WWII course, but I donāt want to give war any more oxygen. Iāll listen to Art in the Age of Rembrandt. Let beauty reign in the shadow of the Pentagon.
15 days ago
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There is an outstanding alt history novel to be written about a contrite Henry VIII praying in the Sistine Chapel with Pope Paul III as Michelangelo paints The Last Judgment
www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...
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King Charles and Pope pray together for first time in Sistine Chapel - follow live
The pair join a service in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel in a symbolic display of unity between the Catholic Church and the Church of England.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ce3k41jkvkxt
17 days ago
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Love that my modernism lecture featured an extended profile of Janet Sobel, who was not only a Ukrainian emigre but her method of drip painting influenced Jackson Pollock (among others).
www.moma.org/collection/w...
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Janet Sobel. Milky Way. 1945 | MoMA
Janet Sobel. Milky Way. 1945. Enamel on canvas. 44 7/8 x 29 7/8" (114 x 75.9 cm). Gift of the artist's family. 1311.1968. Painting & Sculpture
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80636
17 days ago
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Just finished this book last night. What an utterly bizarre story, from the access Booth had to the Presidential Box to the Jack Ruby-esque death of Booth himself by the gun of all-time weirdo Boston Corbett.
19 days ago
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Amazing detective work by Great Courses Prof Steven Tuck finding survivors who fled Pompeii and Herculaneum.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who made it out and left records. And that shocked me."
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/its-really-an-extraordinary-story-historian-steven-tuck-says-of-the-romans-he-tracked-who-survived-the-ad-79-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius
19 days ago
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Coy Hall
20 days ago
RELEASE DAY! This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution is out now. Nine tales! Appreciate any help spreading the word.
Mybook.to/vilewonder
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Heard an outstanding and surprising lecture on the rise of auction houses in the modern history of Western art. Nice points on the difference between worth and worthiness, demand and demanding attention.
21 days ago
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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
22 days ago
I IMPLORE YOU! IF YOU DO *NOTHING* ELSE THIS WEEKEND! *Please* sign up for the free trial of Great Courses and watch this course on Constitutional Law (or as we in the biz call it, ConLaw). The link below should take you directly to it.
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Listening to Noah Charneyās new idiosyncratic but soooo enjoyable history of Western art, Iām realizing how our library of art history Great Courses are insanely good given how few of them we have.
24 days ago
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Found north of the Alps generations before Constantineās āconversionā? š¤Æ
www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...
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Archaeologists Found a Skeleton Wearing an Amulet That May Change the History of Christianity
A 1.37-inch inscription could upend our understanding of the religionās spread.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a68998477/silver-amulet-skeleton-christianity-history/
25 days ago
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HS daughter asked for some help on what made King Alfredās reign important. I apparently went too far. āDad, stop. I only need to write one paragraph.ā š
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HabsGirl šØš¦
29 days ago
The John Candy documentary āI Like Me āon Prime is a must watch for fans. He was so special ā„ļø
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Why cant i find Roman tombstones in my back yard?
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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Ancient Roman tombstone found beneath undergrowth in New Orleans yard
A New Orleans couple doing yard work behind their house unexpectedly found a Roman headstone of a solider who died 1,900 years ago.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/ancient-roman-tombstone-found-beneath-undergrowth-in-new-orleans-yard
30 days ago
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I had zero idea just how much was encoded in Hesiodās telling of the Rape of Persephone until listening to a classical mythology course. It also completely eluded me that Hades was her uncle.
about 1 month ago
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow
about 1 month ago
Today youāll hear a lot about an author you may not be super familiar with. Donāt worry, this series just dropped today, so I have you covered.
www.audible.com/pd/B0FSTGX47...
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Who Was Jane Austen? Sorting Fact from Fiction
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The novels of Jane Austen have captured the imaginations of generations around the world for over two centuries. Not only do these books maintain a special ...
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0FSTGX47P?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp
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Hearing a Jeopardy contestant say āPih-tolemyā for Ptolemy XIII just hurt my soul.
about 1 month ago
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Then, the best keeps getting better since Prof Wysession is in studio this week filming his newest geology course š
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about 1 month ago
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So, actress Laura Keene saw the scene of a dying President Lincoln from the stage and decided to climb up to the box and ask to cradle his bleeding head in her lap? And the doctor let her? Creepy and weird.
about 1 month ago
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Most surprising in my Knights Templar course was Prof Armstrongās lecture on Oak Island. Gives it a full and fair hearing, actually finding several weird anomalies while debunking many theories.
about 1 month ago
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Itās like Law & Order: Silicon Valley
about 1 month ago
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Time to restore Aethelstan to his rightful place in history
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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How England misplaced its first king
In his lifetime, the first king of England was renowned throughout Europe. But over the centuries, he has been sidelined by history.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250926-why-england-forgot-its-first-king
about 1 month ago
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The tangent Dorrie Armstrong took in her new Knights Templar course to go off on the historicity of Kingdom of Heaven ā¤ļø
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SĆørina Higgins
about 1 month ago
Why did I sit down on the floor and cry when I was done recording my Inklings lectures for @TheGreatCourses?
buymeacoffee.com/higginssorina/the-sorrows-success
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The Sorrows of Success ā SĆørina Higgins
Post by SĆørina Higgins
https://buymeacoffee.com/higginssorina/the-sorrows-success
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No way I make it thru a 3-hr marathon-training run without the wit and insight of Dorrie Armstrong on the Knights Templar as my soundtrack.
about 1 month ago
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Another one I canāt wait for.
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about 1 month ago
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Raise your hand if youāre excited by Dorrie Armstrongās new Great Course on the Knights Templar debuting tomorrow. šāāļø
about 1 month ago
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Just finished. Absolutely 5 stars. Informative, inspiring, provocative, hilarious, self-effacing, tragic. Unlike anything Iāve read before.
about 2 months ago
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Replaying this song over and over. The way he changes the chorus at the end is perfect and heartbreaking at once.
youtu.be/Tqwhj4Sm8UM?...
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Sons of the Second Sons
YouTube video by James McMurtry - Topic
https://youtu.be/Tqwhj4Sm8UM?si=83vPxTKvPxQ5NiTk
about 2 months ago
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I literally still dream about attending class and studying in this space in college. Every college kid should have a stained glass reading room.
about 2 months ago
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Teen daughter: Are you going to the office today? Me: Yeah, why? Daughter: Your shirt is tucked in for once. (Yes, she was grounded after that truth outburst.)
about 2 months ago
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NGL spending the morning with, introducing to our company, and then interviewing and having lunch with authorized Orwell biographer (and Twain and Churchill and Graham Greene biographer) Michael Sheldon is a career highlight.
about 2 months ago
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Iāve been bingeing history and ancient philosophy courses the past several months like never before. The more I learn about the past, the less I understand the present.
about 2 months ago
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. šļø
about 2 months ago
And if you want to dive in more to how the Lost Cause influences how we celebrate & remember Thanksgiving, check out lecture 12 of "Forgotten America: Rediscovering Events that Changed the Nation" on The Great Courses Plus or Audible.
#HATM
bit.ly/4omm0oi
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Never thought Iād say this: Zach Helfandās new article on the history and nature fact checking at New Yorker is laugh-out-loud funny. Do yourself a favor and read it.
about 2 months ago
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Corinna
about 2 months ago
Good news everyone ⨠If you have a library card, you can access documentaries, films, & other educational resources like from the Great Courses, all for free. Yay ⨠(I use the Kanopy app, but there are others such as Hoopla, etc. who also stream the free library content.) Enjoy ⨠~C.
#life
#PSA
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Amazing to be back on campus at Ohio Wesleyan with my daughter. I was literally overwhelmed by so many wonderful memories of my history classes here.
about 2 months ago
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