Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership
Now, kira. We have got 30s on the map. A little frosty to start off this morning. A live look over san jose. You can see the sunrise there and this is what i mean when i talk about how cold the temperatures are. Were in the 30s in san jose. 39, morgan hill. It will get even colder probably within the next hour or so, but heres a look at your microclimate highs for the afternoon. In the 60s and a lot of people were asking me about the rain. Do we have any rain, good news, it is expected to remain dry at least for this weekend and of course people have questions about thanksgiving, whether youre going to be, you know, inside or outside. Likely inside, eating. It looks like we have a pretty decent weather pattern setting up and that will set us up for the lovely start. Heres a closer look at the headlines that ill take a look at during my full forecast. Kira . All right. See you in about 15 minutes. Thanks. At 10 00 tonight, the curfew for the majority of california goes in to effect beca
They do to continue to promote American History and their work is absolutely invaluable. Our next speaker today is kevin pawlak at antietam, and he has his own battlefield where he oversees the bristol station battlefield and he oversees a civil war hospital area. Kevin is the coauthor of to hazard all the 1862 antietam campaign. Today he will talk about the aftermath of the antietam campaign, it often gets overlooked tying, and set in the larger context, kevin will talk about the Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen, kevin pawlak. Well, thank you, chris, for that introduction and thanks to all of you for tuning into our virtual symposium. We hope youll be able to join us next year in 2021 when well be reprising our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic of fallen leaders, but today im going to speak with you about the Loudoun Valley campaign which is a campaign that does not get a lot of study at all in the larger scale of the civil war. I probably wager th
Battlefield. He has his own battlefield where he oversees the brison bristo station battlefield. Kevin is the coauthor of the book to hazard all, a guide to the 1862 antietam campaign. Today he will talk to us a little bit about the aftermath the antietam campaign, the tail and that is often overlooked. He will tie into an earlier talk from today. Set in the larger context, he will talk about the loudoun campaign Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen kevin pawlak. Thank you, chris, for that introduction and thank you to all of you for tuning into our virtual symposium. We hope you will be able to join us next year in 2021 we will be reprising our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic a foreign leaders. Today, im going to speak with you about the Loudoun Valley campaign which is a campaign that does not get a lot of study at all unfortunately in the larger scale of the civil war. I would probably wager there are more people in this room that i can count on on
A virus pandemic with a death toll much higher than its neighbors of the chief epidemiologist admitting mistakes we asked of sweden have made a deadly ever the interview generated a wave of reactions and political debate in sweden including from the leader of the opposition and the Prime Minister. Foreign minister and linda welcome to conflict zone thank you very much. You said recently that swedens trust based strategy to combat the coronavirus was working your Prime Minister also continues to maintain the strategy was the right one but to date you have nearly 5000 confirmed coronavirus deaths far higher per capita than your neighbors who imposed stricter lock downs early on with such a high death toll how can you say that your strategy is working. Well actually we have the same goals as most other governments that says to save life and health and also to keep the system in the Health Service able to cope with this very strong push on the limits and actually we manage to flatten the c