Politics, the daily life, the challenges relating to the gaza strip. This event is the latest in meis george and Rhonda Salem Family Foundation series. Mr. George salem will be with us soon, i suppose. We are not relatives, although were both salems, but were distant cousins, perhaps. This event today is being live streamed from our web site, and i think also cspan3 is covering it as well. Itll also be available later as a video or a podcast from our web site as well. Because its being recorded and just for, you know, general decorum, please put your phones on silent. That are available at the front desk where you signed in. Were looking today at the critical political and humanitarian situation in gaza. A lot going on in and around the gaza issue. Tensions between the Palestinian Authority and in the movement itself shifts in the gulf involving saudi, uae, possibly impacting the situation in gaza. Gaza has been under a blockade for almost a decade now. Things have recently gotten wors
Allegiance to isis in 911 call. Donald trump will make a speech focusing on terrorism after asking obama to quit after the wake of massacre. Flags flying across the country including the white house. The Empire State Building going dark and the Freedom Tower lighting only the colors of the rainbow. Also this morning we want to get a quick on Global Markets, asian markets selling off over night. Sharp declines across the board. Investors are on edge for many reasons this morning including this weeks Federal Reserve meeting in fears that britain will vote to leave the euro zone. The euro hitting a threeyear high. We are watching currencies this morning, weighing on european stocks and down across the board and in the u. S. As we wait markets to open several hours from now, right now u. S. Stock market futures trending to the downside, dow futures 63 points, youre looking at 3 tenths of a percent drop across the board. Here with me this morning fox business Dagen Mcdowell, recon capital k
And in pennsylvania, he was known as a civil war scholar. His first book is about crime and punishment in the 19th century south. Life afterk, reconstruction, was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. That makes him the ideal speaker to set the stage or the symposium, with his talk on reckoning with reconstruction, on its sesquicentennial. Ladies and government, let me introduce ed ayers. [applause] ed good morning everybody. Great to see you. I will be honest, i came in from california, two weeks, which is just long enough to become acclimated with the west coast. I am ignoring the fact that i got in at 2 30. That is muchow much i care about you. People know some things about reconstruction, many of them are partially true. I found that many audiences, even those who come to a talk on some facet of the American Civil War as well as those who are freshmen in college, readily admit they do not have the full story of reconstruction fully nailed. Here is what i think the common stock of know
I am a history buff. I do enjoy seeing the fabric of our country and how things how they work and how they are made. I love American History tv. I had no idea they did history. Thats probably something i would really enjoy. With American History tv, it gives you that perspective. I may cspan contrast betwee southerners and native americans. Historian edward ayers looks at the end of the civil war and the dawn of the reconstruction era. Reconstruction began as early as the summer and fall of 1864. He points to the Republican Party expanding to include democrats who supported the union war effort. He talks about Union Victories on the battlefield, including the fall of atlanta and the Shenandoah Valley campaign. This hour long talk was part of a day long symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. Now, let me introduce our first speaker. Weve charged him with playing the role of keynote speaker to offer something of a history course in reconstruction. To highlight some of the
He is a reconstruction expert. Into some of the things of the postwar era. Im confident he is up to the task and not just because hes my boss as chairman of the museums board. Dr. Edward ayers is the founding chairman and served previously on the boards of the American Civil War center and the museum of the confederacy and for that matter, the library of virginia. Over the past eight years, he has become the face of public history. And of the civil war says question tennial says uestion tennial sesqetennial in richmond and serving as the future of richmonds past. He retired from the university of richmond last year and is now the Tucker Boatwright professor of humanities and Professor Emeritus at the university of richmond. Before he began his pioneering work with the valley of the shadow project at u. V. A. And the studies of the civil war period in augusta county, virginia, and franklin county, pennsylvania, ed was known primarily as a historian of the postwar sound. His first book w