Join the library and Bluestockings Book Club for a 10-week video class series all about fascism throughout history taught by Professor Timothy Snyder, Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Afterward, there will be time for discussion. No need to attend all 10 weeks, but classes build on each other. Free! No registration required!

Class 1: What is History? We speak often about history, but we are careless with the past. When we choose not to know what has happened before, we are also choosing not to influence what will happen after. If we don’t care about history, we find ourselves in an eternal present, denied any sort of imagination about the future, and nurtured on lies about a past in which we were innocent. History does not mean these misleading tales; it means a search for knowledge, using a certain set of tools; it means a process that enriches and humanizes, one that allows us to name things by their proper names.