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The free party and the abolitionists in kansas, but it also was very welcoming to africanamericans. War, fugitivesl primarily from missouri would come to lawrence. They knew they had a chance to be rescued if they could make their way there. A lot of the free africanamericans also came to lawrence. What is interesting is that some of the folks in lawrence were conflicted with this issue. Wasthey knew was slavery wrong. They knew they needed to try to do something to end slavery. They knew they w...

Bless him, an associate dean of the college of humanities and at byu. He is also the editor of a book. His talk is entitled the special relationship as Popular Culture 1989 to 1906. Please join me in welcoming frank. [applause] thanks, bob. Echo has go stimulating this has been. I was going over my notes. I could spend half the talk making callbacks for yesterdays session. There were so many things i found helpful in my own thinking. I do have a couple of preparatory thoughts. From some things t...

He wrote a book called hello called buffalo bill in begonia. Where is our Marketing Panel . We still sold it in the gift shop. People loved that because Buffalo Bills name was on the cover there. Please join me in welcoming bob riddell. [applause] thank you all very much. I will be brief. I also want to add my voice of thanks to all the organizers in the last day today and tomorrow. This is a splendid series of events. The word fun does not get often get used in the context of academics. Fun is ...

The festival and enjoying a day out. The festival continues tomorrow and of course booktv will be live again tomorrow. Youve been listening to the last panel and that was women in science. That is with and natalia holtz. She will be joining us in just a minute to take your calls. Rise of the rocket girls is the name of her book. The women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars. And she joins us now here in the gallagher theater on the campus of the university of arizona. What was the...

For calculating the trajectory of the satellite as it left earth. So she is sitting there in the middle of the night on january 31, 1958 with a room full of men and they are all over her shoulder to find out if this mission will be a success. And it is her math done by hand with paper and pencil that lets us know explorer one has made it, america has its first satellite. That was one of the first story she told me. And it was so exciting, so thrilling to be able to hear firsthand what that was l...

Last panel and that was women in science. That is with and natalia holtz. She will be joining us in just a minute to take your calls. Rise of the rocket girls is the name of her book. The women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars. And she joins us now here in the gallagher theater on the campus of the university of arizona. What was the common, the commonality they found among these women . These are women who loved math and science. But they were coming of age at a time when it w...

Missiles to the moon to mars. And she joins us now here in the gallagher theater on the campus of the university of arizona. What was the common, the commonality they found among these women . These are women who loved math and science. But they were coming of age at a time when it was not an option for women. They were women going to school in the 1930s and 40s. They were frequently the only women in their math and science classes. I just heard that over and over again. And so you can imagine h...

Missiles to the moon to mars. And she joins us now here in the gallagher theater on the campus of the university of arizona. What was the common, the commonality they found among these women . These are women who loved math and science. But they were coming of age at a time when it was not an option for women. They were women going to school in the 1930s and 40s. They were frequently the only women in their math and science classes. I just heard that over and over again. And so you can imagine h...

F0 good morning. We are following a developing story in vallejo. Police shoot a man after a confrontation that started inside of a starbucks. The rain has tapered off after a weekend soaking. The damage left behind and the roads that are still slick for your morning commute. Mornings on 2 continues. Welcome back. Thank you for joining us. If you are just waking up, monday morning, october 17th. Im pam cook. Good morning, im dave clark. Steve, do we need an umbrella this morning . Briefly for som...

Good run for records with temperatures like this, starting off in the low 60s after all, in philadelphia, at the airport, 61 currently in atlantic city, and even flirting with 60 up at mount pocono, hard to believe, that we might be tracking some snow later in the week. But, we will, in the meantime, today, is definitely a day of transition for us here, we sort of sit between fronts, cold front sweeps through later today. But it is very weak by comparison. Soap, in the meantime, we have a chance...