1900s through today. Prof. Guerra all right. Welcome to class, everyone. Today, we would like to welcome our cspan viewers joining our class today. We are going to be covering a lot today. This class for those of you that are watching at home is a course focused on business in society here at colorado college. In this class in particular, we are looking at the making of the u. S. Drug war and particularly how it relates to the prohibition and now the legalization of cannabis and how that impacts consumer access to this particular substance. I have been doing research on ethnographical he and historically ethnographically and historically on the drug war and cannabis legalization for the last two decades. So you get to join us now on our tour of the last 100 years of drug policy. As you remember yesterday, we were talking a little bit about the impact of culture and science on our approaches to medicine in conceptualizing what is an acceptable substance for medical consumption and what
Support. Our special exhibit, rightfully hers, tells the story of the woman struggle for Voting Rights. Women activists had to win allies among men in influential positions. It was men who sat in state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19 amendment, whose centennial we celebrate. When rightfully hers opened, guests were offered a yellow rose pin when they entered. That was won by members of the mens league for womens suffrage. For many guests, this not to the role that men played came as a surprise. Tonight we will take a look at the suffragists and their contributions to the voting right struggle. Its my pleasure to welcome nancy tate, she has served as the cochair of the womens Vote Centennial Initiative and is also on the board of the turning point suffragists memorial. She served as the executive director of the league of women voters, and previously she served as the chief operating officer at the National Academy of Public Administration and with the department of ener
Howdy. Jfk emphasized the importance of the space race during a time of fear in the u. S. Incredible men and women took this challenge head on. Nessa became a beacon of hope for the nation. I am honored to introduce one of those legends. The man who pioneered apollo 11 and apollo 13. If you have ever heard the phrase houston, Tranquility Base is here, the eagle has landed. With great honor i am here to introduce houston. Mr. Gene kranz. [applause] mr. Kranz thank you. It is a real privilege. I have a couple aggies in the family. To be introduced by an aggie. They told me i had three hours will have to be speaking through lunch here. But jared said no, he will give me a call when i have five minutes. So he is going to stand up and give me sort of a heads up. , i have a three minute video of the actual Lunar Landing. And i think that will put this year, this decade of the 50th anniversary, firm in context of what is happening. I used this at the smithsonian. If you look at the smithsonia
And to have cspan here taping this to show on television is just icing on the cake. My job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her grad titstude work to go to work as a copy editor. After three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Tonight she will be having a conversation with Caroline Frazier. Caroline frazier is the editor of the library america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books. Her latest book is prairie fires, the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls wilder. It was one of the New York Times ten best book
We have kept ms. Fraser busy. We have had wonderful crowds turn out each time. Of the books. Ut it has been very satisfying. And to have cspan here taping this to show on television is the icing on the cake. It is such a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. [applause] jane my job tonight is to introduce two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the editor at post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis. She graduated with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her work as a grad student in english to go to work as a copy editor for the st. Louis globe democrat. She returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer of the features department for 30 years. As a book editor, she assigns 300edits book reviews from or so new books each week. She has written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors including salman rushdie. And so tonigh