You’re probably most familiar with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-3, but to understand the witch hysteria, we must travel a hundred years farther, to Scotland, at the end of the 1500s... Come along to my seminar to hear the full story, just in time for Halloween!

The Protestant Reformation changed the face of Western Europe and would influence the history of the entire world until the Present day. This class will provide a basic introduction for explaining the course, allure, and progress of Protestantism in Western Europe.

An introductory overview of the mass hysteria that led to the murder of thousands of women, labeled "witches" across Europe and North America, and the methodology used to hunt said witches.

A history of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, set up by Elizabeth I as the first permanent English settlement in North America. Roanoke disappeared, along with all it's colonists, after only five years in existence? What happened to the colonists? This seminar will explore theories and myths surrounding the colony's macabre disappearance.

In this seminar, we will explore the reign of one of England's most notorious rulers, Henry VIII, particularly the awfully high number of people he sent to the scaffold, many of which had at one time been friends and loved ones of the king.

Human consciousness has always lent thought to the Afterlife. From the Egyptian Book of the Dead to Modern Day, we've been occupied with question of what happens to us when we die. This course will give an overview and an analysis of how this concern has effected human history and the make up of the modern era.