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Okay. Welcome back to history. 134 spies, assassins, martyrs and witches, famous trials in American History at the university of maryland last class we did the first part of the scopes trial where we talked about the origins of the case and we spent a significant amount of time placing the case in the context of the time in an effort to explain why the case became so sensational, why a good portion of the United States in the world was focused on this trial. Certainly europe and part of the story was, although we think of the Roaring Twenties as this era of gatsbys parties and flappers and jaz...

To crucify gold would be, of course, connected to Pontius Pilate crucifying christ. In the same way, bryan and populists and populist minded democrats and republicans, too, thought that the American Economy was being run for the interest of those who already had property or those who already had money, those who already had banks and big industries, so theres a class divide in american politics at that time. Now we have a lot of anger about the economy. The anger wasnt focused on money the same way it was then. After all, remember then, every dollar people had in their pockets could be redeeme...

Our profile of president ial candidates continues thursday night on American History tv with a look at labor leader and socialist Party President ial candidate eugene debs. He ran for office five times in the early 20th century. Thats at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time here on cspan3. Coming up this weekend on American History tv on cspan3, the life and legacy of alexander hamilton. Hamiltons argument was that the war had been a common struggle. All the states were fighting together for the liberty of all, for the whole country. So he assumed the debts of the 13 states along with the federal debt. The...

Here are more of the words from William Jennings bryan from his famous cross of gold speech. They tell us the great cities are in favor of the Gold Standard. We reply great cities rest on our broad and fertile prairies, burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city of the country. They say environmentalism is good, but we cannot have it we have a Gold Standard because england has we will restore. And then new england has because the United States has. If they dare to come...

After two decades the local animal sanctuary Eagle Encounters has closed its doors. In a statement from Spier, where the sanctuary was situated as a tenant, it said Eagle Encounters played “a significant role in wildlife rehabilitation in the Western Cape.”