QUEST CLASS VIDEOS – FALL 2025

Below is the table of contents for live-streamed Quest classes that were recorded in the fall 2025 semester.

Classes are posted in chronological order under the courses to which they belong. Click on any course name below to access that course’s video page, or use the links under the heading “Videos – Fall 2025” in the sidebar, on the right-hand side of this page, to navigate the entire site. Once you get to a course page, you will see all the class descriptions with their respective links. Click on any link to watch that video.

PLEASE NOTE: These videos are provided for educational purposes only and are not intended for the public domain. They are for the exclusive use of Quest Members. Do not share video URLs.

AMERICAN UPHEAVALS
(Wed, B Week, AM, Room 15-17)

  1. The Upcoming Mayoral Election, Marian Friedmann, Ann O’Shea, Ilene Winkler, Howard Salik, Laura Lopez (No Video)
  2. The Effects of Cellphones On Our Nation’s Children, Michael Wellner
  3. Crime and Criminal Justice, Emily Mines

ART AND PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE
(Tuesday, A Week, AM, Room 27)

  1. In Search of San Juan Hill, Sean Khorsandi, Guest Speaker
  2. Beaux-Arts Architecture, Jim Brook
  3. Traditional Chinese Architecture, Bob Reiss

ARTISTS & THEIR WORK
(Tuesday, B Week, AM, Auditorium)

  1. The Rockefeller Family as Collectors Paul Adler
  2. American Indian Art Debbi Honorof

CINEMA QUEST: CURRENT AND CLASSIC
(Wednesday, A Week, PM, Auditorium)

  1. The Conversation, The Friend, I’m Still Here, Donna Basile, Bob Reiss, Paul Adler
  2. Lily; Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy; The Life of Chuck; Arlynn Greenbaum, Len Lavitt, Howard Salik
  3. Shoshana, North by Northwest, When Fall is Coming, Marian Friedmann, Kathy Cook, Leslie Goldman

DISTINGUISHED GUEST LECTURES
(Wed, B Week, PM, Auditorium)

  1. Roman Year: A Memoir, Andre Aciman
  2. Local History: Creating the Skyscraper Museum, Carol Willis
  3. Behind the Scenes at THIRTEEN, Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of WNET

ERAS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
(Thursday, A Week, AM, Auditorium)

  1. The Social Impact of the Mexican-American War, Bob Belfort
  2. WWII and the U.S. Home Front, Debbi Honorof

GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY
(Monday, B Week, AM, Auditorium)

  1. Failures of the Famed Peter Dichter
  2. Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, Ellie Schaffer

HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY
(Tuesday, A Week, PM, Auditorium)

  1. From the Civil War to the Gilded Age, Ilene Winkler
  2. Brooklyn, Sandra Abramson
  3. Art and Culture in the Gilded Age, Susannah Falk Lewis

NOONTIME KNOWLEDGE — SPECIAL PRESENTATION
(Thursday, A Week, Noon, Room 27)

  1. Medicare Open Enrollment, Ellen Gottfried

PROFILES IN COURAGE
(Monday, A Week, PM, Auditorium)

  1. What is Courage? Tracey Lee
  2. Liz Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson, Wayne Cotter

SUPREME COURT
(Tuesday, A Week, AM, Room 15-17)

  1. Birthright Citizenship: Trump’s Executive Order v. Fourteenth, Bob Gottfried
  2. A Rogue President and A Rogue Supreme Court?, Sandra Abramson
  3. Transgender Medical Care, Bob Belfort

WORLD OF RELIGIONS
(Thursday, A Week, PM, Room 27)

  1. Roman Catholicism, Paul Adler
  2. Reconstructionist Judaism, Bob Reiss