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In a laramie, wyoming as well. So edward was actually of all the places, was born down in the caribbean. He lived there for seven years. His father moved there from england to manage a sugarcane plantation and he wound up in new york city in about 1852. While he was there, he met a young woman. He is 23, she was 16. They ran away to get married and they, like a lot of young folks, moved west to make their fame and fortune and wound up in laramie, wyoming. The family had been living in tennessee, and he decided to move the family to california. The way he thought he would get to california, he had a dry goods store and he sold all of the stuff and got freight cars and put his stuff in them. As the Union Pacific was built across the right planes, he great plains, he followed right along and had a rolling store. In the winter of 1867, he learns that the Union Pacific railroad is g ....
Prof. Fields good afternoon. We are going to talk about jean harris. We are going to talk about this case in a couple of different sections. First, we will talk about the case itself. As we talk about this case, i want you to keep two things in the back of your mind. We will come back at the end of class to talk about these. The first is, i want you to think about how this case is both similar and different from the Lizzie Borden murder trials from 1893. About 100 years earlier. The second is a question of, why do you want know who is a board is, and raise your hand if you heard about the jean harris murder trial before this class. You had all heard of Lizzie Borden, right . I want to talk about why some cases remain more famous than others. Especially because everybody talks about cases as if they are this case of the century, the trial of the century. We will begin with openi ....
Host good afternoon. I get the privilege of introducing a good friend. Drew and i have been arguing over the past two days, what i should do in this introduction. I will just read what you sent me. It is best [laughter] it is kind of funny, actually. Gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] going tor i am introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt think couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard L ....
Colorado college and in this class in particular, we look at the making of the u. S. Drug war and how it relates to prohibition in the legalization of cannabis and how that impacts consumer access to this particular substance. Ive been doing research on the drug war and cannabis for the last two decades, so you get to join us today on hours tour of the last 100 years of drug policy. Alexa remember yesterday we talked a little bit about the impact of culture and science on the approach to medicine and conceptualizing what is an acceptable substance for medical consumption and what marks the substances that are different from medicine. So, today we will try to see how the very ideas actually impact the laws that govern our access to substances. So, we will start at just over a century ago with the pure food and drugs act of 1906. This is something that impacts us into the present and really helps to control access to a whole range of substances. So, the lie itself is focused on consumer ....