Different than the current administrations he was speaking to us network c. N. N. And described his plans he said where possible he would mandate mass for example on interstate travel on airplanes and in federal buildings but otherwise would seek to influence americans by his example and they said it was important for him and the Vice President themselves to wear a mask as an example of course mask wearing has become controversial in some parts of the United States so there could be some pushback on that front but both biden seeming to stress that there would be an end date that this was for a limited time 100. 00 days to get the virus under control he also talked about the fact that his plan was not to close the economy but to offer clear guidance not to impose strict or not to impose specific lockdown so much as guidance he talked about if restaurants and bars need to close for periods of time that they need to know that there would be assistance in what the ground rules were going t
Of the European Commission to see whether any progress has been made because in the words of a british cabinet minister on sunday we are into the last few days of possibility of striking a deal because the contentious points fisheries access to british waters and how soon that should change a level Playing Field what kind of rules britain will have to continue to follow and how any disputes will actually be solved in the future well the outcome of the brics it talks could impact the u. K. s covered 19 Vaccination Program thats juta roll up on choose day agenda holism london has more on the manufacturing process. Its already being described as the largest immunize ation program in history quantities of the vaccine vaccine have already arrived in this country were told having travelled here by the channel tunnel from belgium where theyre being manufactured and then being passed on woods to 50 hospital helps theyll be the initial vaccine sites the role for enhanced it is one of the full r
Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
One else seemed wrong. Why dont we all just dont call me yet to shape out these days to come back to and in detroit. Because the trail when something find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. Greetings and sal you take actions from electric cars that park and drive themselves to the ability to buy damn near anything your imagination desires from the comfort of your own home. In just a click or 2, we must truly, truly be living in a brand new gilded age of prosperity. Yeah, not so much new. Not at all. Apart from all of our gadgets, of convenience and entertainment, at our fingertips, the meat hook reality is that according to the u. S. Labor department, u. S. Jobless claims of risen over 800000 since august. Weve had more than 75000000. 00 claims for unemployment insurance. Since the start of the pandemic all the way back in march, in fact the number of u. S. Citizens living in poverty has jumped from 9 percent back in june to over 11 percent in september. And
Elliott about the history of africanamericans in dmong the 19th century and a sea of artifacts from the house collection. The story of how africanamericans come to congress in the 19th century is not one a lot of people are familiar with. We actually have 22 africanamericans serve between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house. 2 in the senate. Largely a house story. And it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war, and in the decade after. During the civil war there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals, because they believed in the equality of africanamericans, and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. These were radicals in the house, like thaddeus stephens, who was chairman of the ways and Means Committee and a very powerful leader. Also people like henry winter davis. Washburn. In the Senate People like Charles Sumner and Benjamin Wade and they really drove the agenda and pushed the Lincoln Administration to not only