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 were breaking the law. They knew they would be broke thrown in jail. You can watch the entire Program Sunday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern here on American History tv, only an cspan3. Next, from the Buffalo Bills center of the west in next, from the Buffalo Bills center in wyoming. 1886, a Buffalo Bills show debuted at an american exhibition in london. The performance attracted tens of thousands of spectators, including european royalty. We care about how they show influence u. S. U. K. Relationships, a
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 that Patty Limerick is said in her keynote yesterday. I really like her idea of what she calls Buffalo Bills studies, as fieldnotes. Field that identifies our collective project as inherently ecumenical. In its approach to scholarship, one that is called a by the nature of the subject. Was, i informal survey thought, was very helpful. She asked about the various backgrounds of those in the audience. I would like to think that the paper is working towards this vision in a variety ways. One of whic
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 an appropriate word to use. These are delightful presentations. Im looking forward to the ones that are upcoming. The personal privilege, 100 years ago, a massive funeral. My grandfather and grandmother were there, along with my mother at age two. Somehow, these things come around. Let me introduce our first panelist. Frank christianson, i think most of you know frank and his work. He is an associate professor of english, associate dean, god bless him, an associate dean of the college of humanit
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 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 how it felt for them to come together and be part of this large group of women working at the jet propulsion laboratory. Did nasa have a s
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 like. There are not very many people left that can tell us about these nasa missions, what it was like in mission control. It was thrilling to hear that way. Is it a coincidence that this program was starting the same year that went up . It started way before that actually. These were men and women that were working, starting in the late 1930s working on early missiles. Then by the 1950s they started adapting that technology and their goal really was to launch the worlds first satellite. And i st