Topics

We develop several new topics every month. Click on one of the links on this page to be taken to lecture notes and more information on the Active Minds class that interests you.

• World_Issues Topics
• Music Topics

World Issues Topics

• 1963 (the year)
• 1968 (the year)
• Affirmative Action
• Afghanistan
• Ali, Muhammad
• American West
• Argentina
• Artificial Intelligence
• Atomic Bomb
• Australia
• Aviation: From Kitty Hawk to Today
• Bangladesh
• Baseball
• Beer
• Bees
• Brazil
• BREXIT & the European Union
• Buddhism
• California
• Canada
• Chaplin, Charlie
• Cheese
• Chicago
• China's Belt & Road Initiative
• China's Economy
• China's Human Rights: Tiananmen
• Chocolate
• Churchill, Winston
• Civil Rights Act
• Civil War, U.S.
• Climate Change
• Coffee
• Colombia
• Colorado Ballot 2022
• Colorado History
• Columbus
• Convention History, Political
• Cowboys
• Cryptocurrency
• Cuba
• Curie, Marie
• Cybersecurity
• Da Vinci, Leonardo
• Declaration of Independence
• Denver History
• Denver Women in History
• Dinosaurs!
• Douglass, Frederick
• Egypt
• Einstein, Albert
• Electric Grid
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Energy, Renewable
• Erie Canal
• Ethiopia
• Everest
• Finland
• Football
• Fracking
• France
• Franklin, Ben
• Genetic Engineering
• Genghis Khan
• Germany
• Ghosts of Colorado
• GI Bill
• Great Depression, The
• Great Migration, The
• Greece
• Haiti
• Hamilton, Alexander
• Hinduism
• Holiday Traditions
• Hong Kong
• Horses
• Iceland
• Immigration Policy in the U.S.
• Impeachment
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Ireland & Northern Ireland
• ISIS
• Islamic Faith, The
• Israel & Palestine
• Italy
• Japan
• Japanese Internment
• Kashmir
• Kennedy, John F
• King, Martin Luther
• King Tut
• Korea, North
• Korea, South
• Korean War
• Kurds
• Lebanon
• Lewis & Clark Expedition
• Libya
• Lincoln, Abraham
• London
• Magellan, Ferdinand
• Malaysia
• Malcolm X
• Marijuana
• Marshall Plan
• Mayans
• Medicare
• Mexico
• Monsters & Legends
• Morocco
• Mother Teresa
• Movies
• Myanmar
• Napoleon
• NATO
• National Parks
• Native Americans of Colorado
• New Orleans
• New York City
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• Nile River
• Nixon, Richard
• Nobel Prize
• Nuclear Energy
• Nuclear Weapons
• Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
• Oil
• Olympics: Diplomacy & Politics
• Pakistan
• Panama
• Paris
• Pearl Harbor
• Peru
• Philippines
• Pirates: Tales & Legends
• Plastics
• Pope Francis
• Presley, Elvis
• Princess Diana
• Prohibition
• Puerto Rico
• Queen Elizabeth I
• Radio
• Railroads
• Reagan, Ronald
• Refugee Crisis
• Rock'n'Roll History
• Rome & Julius Caesar
• Roosevelt, Eleanor
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR)
• Russia Invades Ukraine
• Salem Witches
• Salt
• San Francisco
• Sand Creek Massacre, The
• Saudi Arabia
• Scotland
• Shakespeare, William
• Skiing History
• Social Media
• Somalia
• South Africa
• South China Sea
• South Pole Discovery
• Soviet Union Collapse
• Space Exploration
• Spain
• Spices
• Sudan & South Sudan
• Sugar
• Supreme Court
• Switzerland
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tea
• Thanksgiving
• Tibet
• Titanic, The: From Sinking to Salvage
• Tobacco
• Tokyo
• Tubman, Harriet
• Turkey
• Tuskegee Airmen
• Ukraine
• United Nations
• Van Gogh, Vincent
• Venezuela
• Venice
• Veterans Day
• Vienna
• Vietnam
• Vikings
• Voting Rights
• War of 1812
• Water in Colorado
• Whiskey
• Wildfires
• Wine
• Women's Progress
• Women's Suffrage
• World War I: The Great War
• World War I Legacy
• World War I Origins
• World War II: D-Day
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe

Music Topics

• 1930s Popular Music
• A Cappella
• Adagio
• American Pop Music of the 19th Century
• America's Classical Music Tradition
• Armstrong, Louis
• Autumn Music
• Bach
• Bach Keyboard
• Bach's Sons
• Barber, Samuel
• Baroque Holiday Music
• Baroque Women Composers
• Beethoven Chamber Music
• Beethoven Choral Music
• Beethoven & the Piano
• Bennett, Tony
• Berlioz, Hector
• Bernstein, Leonard
• Birds & Bees Music
• Blues, Origins of
• Brahms
• Broadway Music Origins
• Chamber Music
• Chopin
• Civil War Songs
• Colorado Music
• Colorado Symphony Season
• Colors in Music
• Country Music Roots
• Copland
• Composers in Love
• Composers who Traveled
• Concertos, Mixed-Up
• Concerts that made history
• Cosmos Music
• Cowboy Music
• Dance Music
• Dvorak
• Emotions of music
• Flowers Music
• Flute, The
• Folk Music
• Foster, Stephen
• Gershwin
• Grieg
• Guitar
• Guitar, Acoustic Pop
• Guitar, Origins
• Handel
• Haydn
• Heavens, Music of
• Heroes & Villains in Music
• Holiday Music (Classical)
• Humor in Music
• Impressionists Music
• Jazz, Classical
• Joplin, Ragtime, and Beyond
• Liszt & Paganini: Virtuosos
• Love Song/Music, Classical
• Mahler
• March, The
• Masters in Miniature
• Medieval Women Composers
• Mendelssohn
• Minstrel Songs, History of
• Mountains & Music
• Movies Music
• Mozart the Entertainer
• Mozart as a Kid
• Mozart Piano Concertos
• Mozart Piano Concertos-Later Works
• Nutcracker
• Opera as Popular Music
• Opus 1: Great Composers' First Works
• Orchestra, Brass
• Orchestra, Percussion
• Orchestra, Piano
• Orchestra, Pops
• Orchestra, Strings
• Orchestra, Vocal
• Orchestra, Woodwinds
• Overture, The
• Paris Music
• Parton, Dolly
• Patriotic Music
• Patrons of Music
• Pops Music
• Protest Music
• Rachmaninoff
• Ravel
• Rock'n'Roll Music Origens
• Romantic Nationalism in Music
• Rossini
• Russian Composers Beyond Tchaikovsky
• Schubert
• Schubert Piano
• Schumanns
• Shakespeare in Music
• Shostakovich
• Sinatra
• Spooky Music (Halloween)
• Spring Music
• Summer Music
• Symphony, Birth of
• Tchaikovsky's Triumph!
• Tchaikovsky's Greatest Symphonies
• Thankful Music
• Turner, Tina
• Unsung Heroes
• Verdi & Puccini
• Vienna Music
• Violin, The
• Virtuoso Music
• Vivaldi & Venice
• Waltz Kings, The
• Waltz, Vienna's World of
• Water Music
• Williams, John & American Film Music
• Winter Music
• Women Composers, Classical
• Women Composers, Contemporary
• World War II Songs
• Young & Old Composers