I would encourage students, graduate students watching and scholars watching who are interested in panAmerican History as well as the civil war, this is a rich area of inquiry in which there is a lot of that still needs to be done. How did i come to it . Im a little out of my element here an english professor among historians who writes historical fiction but did a lot of Historical Research for my book. For my fictional title, confederados. How does an english professor from appomattox, virginia, come to have an interest in confederados . And the answer is, marriage. [laughter] i married a local gal from Buckingham County who had an ancestor who fought in the civil war in mosbys rangers and who afterward, for various reasons was compelled he was a bachelor, a young guy was compelled to leave the country. Going back to berts comment reconstruction after the surrenders, it is a time of uncertainty. A lot of southerners were concerned, how are we going to be treated . Is it going to be m
The reality is they opened up but it was to be an outreach to our kind of people there. Thank you. I just had a quick question. Do you think the majority of the people, do you have any information on this, left for political reasons, not wanting to live under yankee rule or was it more economics hoping to reestablish a Slave Institution in brazil or elsewhere . And also, do you have any information perhaps about the states that they were more likely to have left were deep south states like alabama, mississippi or upper south states, which i would think it would be deep south states but im just guessing on that . Well, let me start with your last question, yes, it was predominantly deep south states where it was where the brazilian government advertised and also the ports lended themselves to transportation to brazil as well. Although, there were some virginians. They would have left from norfolk and there was a man in lynchburg whose last name was noonen who was sort of the point perso
In the entire state of arizona. California and texas just saw the most deaths in a single day since the beginning of this pandemic and the situation is getting so dire that dr. Fauci said this. I think any state thats having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down. Its not for me to say because each state is different. And minutes from through, we are expecting landmark rulings on whether the president can block the release of his tax records and his financial documents or not. The Supreme Court will weigh in. Were covering all of this. Lets begin in miami with rosa flores. What more do we know about the hospitals there . To think in the state of florida, 42 hospitals are completely out of open icu beds. And some of them are right here in Miamidade County, the epicenter of the crisis. Look, here in the state of florida, the state reported nearly 10,000 cases yesterday. The positivity right here in Miamidade County is 28 . When we last talked yesterday it is
He calls the guidelines impractical, very tough and expensive. The president wants schools open starting next month so parents can go back to their jobs. A necessary step to fully reopen the economy. Vice president mike pence reinforcing that message but with a different tone. The president said today we just dont want the guidance to be too tough. Thats the reason why next week cdcs going to be issuing a new set of tools. More now from White House Correspondent jeremy diamond. Reporter pushing for schools to reopen, President Trump is already turning to heavyhanded tactics threatening to cut funding to reluctant schools and dismissing some of his administrations own Public Health experts. Falsely accusing democrats of opposing School Reopenings across the board, the president tweeting, may cut off funding if not open. What you heard from the president is just his determination to provide the kind of leadership from the federal level that says were going to get our kids back to school
Increasing pressure on schools all across the United States to reopen with the president tweeting that he may actually cut off funding to schools that dont reopen. Vice president pence says the cdc will be changing its School Reopening guidelines after the president publicly criticized them as too tough and too expensive. Lets begin with the breaking news out of california right now. Cnns nick watt is in los angeles for us. Nick, i understand the governor Just Announced some very disturbing new numbers. Reporter he did, wolf. And they are the number of people in the hospital with covid19. You cant argue with it. Its a fact. You cant just say it was more testing. And in the past two weeks the number of people in the hospital here in california is up 44 . Here in l. A. County they just told us they are concerned death rates will rise as well. And they are telling School Districts here, listen, its going to be prudent of you to get a learning Distance Plan in place just in case. And thats