City the Utah Debate Commission welcomes you to the gubernatorial candidates debate. Good evening. I am with k sl radio and television. Its my privilege to moderate tonights debate at the invitation of the commission. This event held live as a part of the mission to educate voters and to encourage the Civil Exchange of ideas. If you are watching or listening live, we encourage your reactions and questions on social media using the hashtag debates and listen and learn vote. We are also broadcasting live from the studios where we will hear from two candidates vying for the office of governor, republican Lieutenant Governor spencer cox and democrat Chris Peterson. For the safety of all involved in the debate process, we are adhering to social distancing guidelines, and there is no studio audience tonight. The questions for the debate will come from myself, students from Utah Valley University, members of the news media and the viewing audience participating on social media and response ti
The Supreme Court. It has been a highly successful series up until now. We expect to finish it this evening in a blaze of glory. So we are looking forward. I want to especially thank Justice Kagan for hosting us this evening. Without the support of the justices about report, we would be unable to host these events in such a gust surroundings. Because the justice has another event immediately after this one, i will give a brief or introduction then she deserves. But she has to make her way to a second event. Justice kagan has an enviable resume. You will hear a little bit about it now. She received her a b summa cum laude from princeton university. She then attended Worcester College at oxford as princeton s daniel em sex graduating fellow. She received a masters of philosophy there. She then earned aj d. From harvard law school, graduating magnet come allowed a, where she was supervising editor of the harvard law review. A Job Description that i assume she means they did the really har
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A Lasting Impact on American Society. This class is about an hour, 20 minutes. All right. So today were going to talk about america during the First World War. And ive called this lecture americans at war the myth busters edition. And i did that kind of intentionally. Because when we think about understanding the First World War in general, there are so many myths and misconceptions that are attached to the war that its really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then to unpam them a little bit and think more about the reality of the experience, right . I want to start first by talking about how this connects to the First World War overall. So its not just america that has these myths, but even this sense of how we understand the First World War to begin with. And we think of the kind of general narrative that we attach to it. One of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. Right . Weve already talked about the uncertainty as
Unequal distribution of wealth led to the Great Depression. Her class is about 75 minutes. Weve spent the last few weeks considering how americans adapted to abundance between the 1890s and 1920s. Despite the efforts of producers, advertisers, of retailers and of others, the supply of goods continue to outstrip demand. This wasnt because all everyone, all 106 million americans, had everything they needed. It was because they didnt have adequate purchasing power. They didnt have adequate wages or income to buy all of that stuff. And it wasnt just americans who were in this situation, but so too were our trading partners around the world. They didnt have enough income to buy all of the commodities we were producing in our fields and all of the wonderful things that we are our factories were making. So by the end of the 1920s, the American Economy went bust. You guys all know this. You all know that the stock get crashed in 1929. The World Economy went bust as well. A worldwide economic d