Back in April, the PBS show History Detectives called UMR historian Diana Ahmad to verify the authenticity of a purported Chinese opium scale found by a woman in Missoula, Mont. The program will air Monday, July 24.
Around here, you can tune in to KETC Channel 9 at 9 p.m.
Ahmad is something of an expert on opium. In fact, she's working on a manuscript about it called The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth Century American West.
Read more about next week's episode here. If you happen to see the trailer, Ahmad's hands are playing with a ball of "opium."
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