Early as this weekend how can travel resume safely with the continued coronavirus trusts us dont move too fast the white house is top expert on the coronavirus says the u. S. Could see needless suffering and death for economic damage if lockdowns and to susan. And the afghan president orders the military to restart operations against militants that comes after extremists attack civilian targets including a Maternity Ward killing mothers and if. Im seen as i was kind of glad you could join us german chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the country must not jeopardize the progress thats made in containing the coronavirus by moving too quickly to lift restrictions. In parliament the chancellor face questions on the Economic Impact of the disease as well as on conditions for Seasonal Workers after a large corona Virus Outbreak at a slaughterhouse germany is now emerging from a nearly 2 months lock down but medical warned the country would be living with the disease for some time to com
American history tv continues now with a look at the influence of religion on u. S. Politics and Foreign Policy in the 20th century. From purdue university, this is an hour and a half. Thank you all for coming. Im ronit stahl. Ill be chairing this roundtable today. Ill give a brief overview of how it came to be and what well talk about and quickly introduce our group. Then well get started. 15 years ago in is your mike on . There we go. Thank you. Theres a switch on the mikes. 15 years ago in a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted, religions continuing importance contains analysis. In political history religion has retained in butlers evocative term, a jack in the box view. Today our roundtable will address how religion matters in american political history and well do so in three ways. First ill each panelist to focus on a way in which religion matters. That is in their own resear
Employers from their employees when they went to the polls. They were not passed in all states. Secret ball let polls lagged. So we have this kind of interesting phenomenon with the klan of the 20s. Even as this membership grows, klan violence declines. In fact, racial violence overall declines during the 1920s after a kind of sharp spike in lynchings post world war i. Certainly compared to whats effectively the paramilitary klan of reconstruction or the terrorism of the klan in the civil rights era, historians have written about the klan of the 1920s as less physically environment, though of course still driven by the same fundamentally violent ideology. Thats not the whole picture though. To correct that misunderstanding, what we need to do is look at the klans political involvement. I think its particularly interesting to look at this from the federal level. Now if we focus on electoral success, its pretty easy to dismiss the influence of the ku klux klan on the politics of the 1920
American history article john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted, religion of the continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. Scholars of american religious history have proliferated over the past 15 years, yet in political history, religion has often retained a jackinthebox quality colorful, surprising, anomalous, idiosyncratic, but left on the periphery to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today, our roundtable will address how religion matters in american political history, and we will do so in three ways. First, i will ask each of our panelists to focus on a way in which religion matters that is, in their own research, how religion plays a role in spaces that they are working on, but also how centering religion in these spaces gives us a different narrative, a different story than if it were on the periphery or ignored in an way. Second, we will tal
Also find us and. Science. Open borders. Open markets. And interconnected welt. But has the coronavirus and Great Lockdown made all that history globalists the people that think we have to make the world wealthy at our expense i dont even know where these people come from but those days are over. As the World Economy slumps into recession what sort of system of a rise from the ashes of this crisis. Welcome to october 1000. 00 special on d w news i want to get jones thanks for joining us for years theres been a growing backlash against globalization now the virus has put the entire system at risk questionis for better or worse. This shop is like a mini universe with dozens of different versions of our planet a good place to pause for thought whats happening to our world is the coronavirus killing globalisation observers say were facing 3 scenarios 1st the end of an era in an interview with the french president in Motherwell Mcconnell said we have to think the unthinkable and that global