Shes no stranger to virginia, having earned her, one of her m. A. s and phd at the university of virginia. At oberlin, she created the history design lab that allows students to develop projects involving methodological approaches ranging from oral history, podcast, historical fiction and public history. Remember what we said about our speakers and their commitment to mentorship and education. Shes the author of the civil war and transformation of american citizenship. As i was preparing this introduction, i read her work in the flagship journal civil war history, part of a roundtable discussion about new civil war revisionism. Also, women, sl slavery and the boundaries of freedom in washington, d. C. Is now under contract, i am pleased to say, explaining how black women in the Nations Capital made claims to liberty during the civil war. The program today free women, mobilizing emancipation and citizenship in wartime washington, d. C. Ladies and gentlemen, tamika nunley. [applause] pro
They talk about the history and special relationship between the two cities. Of the wonderful things about bryanCollege Station, you have two cities one community. Really right after the civil war. There was a railroad coming from houston that was marching its way here. After the civil war it continued on and brian for the first few years after the civil war struggled to get itself created but was able to do that. Its876 the University Got first six students and the city of brian was really getting going. Are still some of the first buildings that were being built. 25 years ago this area was a ghost town. Has created growth and renewal in the city of brian. The line between our cities is blurred not just in how we Work Together but geographically. Texas a m founded in 1876. But it wasit grew five miles from the nearest town. Calledknew about a town factge station except the in 1938 when some a m faculty and staff got together and said lets create our own city. We are growing somewhere
The yield down below. 6 last time i checked, it was at 0. 597 dr. Fauci saying the first human trial testing for a covid19 vaccine is now on track calling it the ultimate game changer but that public distribution is still 12 to 18 months away. President trump was asked if the stom pile of personal protective equipment was nearly depleted. We are sending it directly to hospitals. We dont want to take it before it gets there. We asked many states to do this. Many states have people or where they make clothing, we said see if you can get it directly from those manufacturers. The president considering halting flights to hot spots in the country, which would be a shift in this batter and also potentially have an impact on when and if the economy will return to some normal si in the meantime, total death numbers have topped 5,100. Confirmed cases have topped 200,000. In new york, topping 81,000 cases. In italy, the lowest daily death toll the new number of active cases declining. The hate he
Images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every ten years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country rank our president s. Now, who knows how our current president is going to rank . Nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes itll be lincoln, sometimes washington, sometimes f. D. R. But the interesting thing about this is that we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. We have photograph images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. And of course we have images of f. D. R. We even have some images of him in his wheelchair. And generally the press did not take images of him in his wheelchair. But with George Washington, he was there before photography so we dont have photographs of him. What we have instead are artists representations and those are not always very accurate. I mean, you look at
And bank ofs, citi, america all reporting today after j. P. Morgan and wells fargo yesterday. The pboc cuts mediumterm borrowing costs again amid expectations of further easing, after the imf warns this years downturn could match that of the Great Depression. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe. Lets take a look at how futures are trading. We had gains in the cash trade yesterday in europe, with the exception of the ftse, and big gains in the u. S. To close the session last night. Mixed trade in asia as the earnings season began to kind of way on some investors sentiment. As a result, we see european futures down this morning. Nasdaq, u. S. Futures down as well, about two thirds of 1 . Lets get you the bloomberg first word news from the terminal. President trump says he is suspending u. S. Funding for the World Health Organization while his administration reviews its response to the coronavirus. He says the who was slow to share informatio