The project is founded by the National Endowment for the humanities, the largest grant awarded in the last year for which we are eternally grateful. I thought i would tell you a few words about the institute and what we do and how we came to do this project. The Gilder Lehrman institute is rather young. It was founded in 1994. The mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American History through programs and resources. At the present time, we have 65,000 documents in the Gilder Lehrman collection which is the core of our programming. The collection is drawn upon to do programs, outreach, to contribute to a website visited by 7 million people, and also to support a network of 6500 affiliates to whom we send materials on a monthly basis, as well as teachers and seminars. It is the collection that really gives us the capacity and ability to bring people facetoface with primary documents and engage in understanding the people, events, and controversies that shaped our histo
Talking about today. The project is founded by the National Endowment for the humanities, the largest grant awarded in the last year for which we are eternally grateful. I thought i would tell you a few words about the institute and what we do and how we came to do this project. The Gilder Lehrman institute is rather young. It was founded in 1994. The mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American History through programs and resources. At the present time, we have 65,000 documents in the Gilder Lehrman collection which is the core of our programming. The collection is drawn upon to do programs, outreach, to contribute to a website visited by 7 million people, and also to support a network of 6500 affiliates to whom we send materials on a monthly basis, as well as teachers and seminars. It is the collection that really gives us the capacity and ability to bring people facetoface with primary documents and engage in understanding the people, events, and controversies
Seen heart breaking images of what this storm can and did do, there was a bridge collapse making it impossible for survivors to get help and the death toll continues to rise, into the hundreds. Good day it is a friday, tgif, october 7th, 2016 and this morning the storm is our big story. We have Live Team Coverage of the effects, time line and we have dave kinchen at Philadelphia International with the flight updates. Jenny joyce over at peco where volunteers are heading south to help those in the path but lets begin with sue serio with the forecast, sue. Karen, even though we are not getting the hurricane, itself, just about all of us know people down to the south, in florida, georgia, South Carolina, being affected by this storm and this is it, Hurricane Matthew, live 3t satellite picture and through can see the eye, it is still moving in the northwesterly direction but this thing has continued to move parallel to the coast all night, and continuing this morning, well it make land fal
Rudy giuliani and in the other corner you have governor mitt romney, outspoken opponent during the campaign called the president elect a phony and a con. Top trump loyalists are not happy about the idea of mitt romney as potential secretary of state. People feel betrayed to think that governor romney who went out of his way to question the character and intellect and the integrity of donald trump now our president elect would be given the most significant cabinet post of all, secretary of state. That is decision only one man can make, president elect donald trump. We dont even know if he voted for donald trump. He and his consultants were awful to donald trump for a year. Bill that is one thing to follow. Mr. Trump sounding off on the recount efforts underway in wisconsin, calling it sad and ridiculous. Martha what a weekend, right . Peter doocy live outside of trump to youer in new york city. So, peter, do we expect we might get a decision on secretary of state or any other post as ea
Good morning, everyone and welcome to the peoples palace and im here this morning to announce yet another milestone in our citys commitment to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour by and people will work this fourth of july weekend we are celebrating our countries birthday but recognizing in the celebration throughout the weekend people like the people had that are standing with me are working whether the restaurants or hotels or Health Care Workers and others and and we all feel for working people that is hard in our expensive city to survive unless you have a december sent wage thats why a couple of years ago i destined or joibd the board of supervisors full board of supervisors to place before the voters an 15 an hour minimum wage and people that work in all those industries we did it together and were celebrating because today it goes from 12. 25 an hour to 13 and up to 15 and after that cpi takes over i want to remind everybody this city was brought together with our labor unions