I am peter carmichael. I am a professor of history here. I am also the director of the Civil War Institute. Its my pleasure this evening to welcome harold holzer. He is the director of Hunter Colleges roosevelt house Public Policy institute. You dont have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. For the previous ten years he coedited or, excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should add president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or coauthored or edited 52 books. Thats what youre up to now. I know you think ive read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for Public Opinion. It has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by Gettysburg College. Just this week i saw it was announced that harold has been
I am peter carmichael. I am a professor of history here. I am also the director of the Civil War Institute. Its my pleasure this evening to welcome harold holzer. He is the director of Hunter Colleges roosevelt house Public Policy institute. You dont have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. For the previous ten years he coedited or, excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should add president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or coauthored or edited 52 books. Thats what youre up to now. I know you think ive read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for Public Opinion. It has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by Gettysburg College. Just this week i saw it was announced that harold has been
Mississippi book festival. I would like to let you noticed a sponsor is the of law firm and a light to introduce a partner at the firm. If youre not from mississippi welcome to the treasure of our state capital. Along with other partners we are thrilled to have a part of what is one of the greatest gifts that you could possibly offer. [applause] with my evil alter ego as jerry negative with the very able to help with the of book fest and the Mississippi Museum that simply would not happen. [applause] in whatever love to have the privilege of introducing the entire panel. At a time perhaps as many in the last 50 years in those speeds to be counseled but it is wonderful we had that at our disposal the lead to a u. N. Experts agree it come fisherman, a turban turban, stanton, a kennedy is out of the great thinkers and leaders of American History for those that were studied auntie expert panel you will see the first annotated version of president grants personal memoirs. It is in print but
But to physically examine her. Because then she dies and then yes. But then to reveal is the of revelation. That is the idea not only of of what you could say to believe that that was part of the hope that i use the that now those accusations are just as important. Some of that circle is part of barnums legacy. Donald trump signals a troubling mindset. It is a the absent or contested. Yes. I dont think i am alone when i say these types of questions but those almost predate our Current Situation from conspiracy theories but it d bunk these notions of what is that about im interested in tracing why do we have that at all . Sows citizenry in patriotism and those big cosmic things better part of our fabric as a nation to be resurrected. It is even hard now with President Trump it is hard to unsubtle that so with that bursa for to per certificate of president obama so why do we believe as much as we deceive. Why do we . So the fed is on who we are but those who they want to believe with tho
Minutes ago. In a second. Latest from new york stock exchange, with nicole petallides. A lot of green arrows. What is going on here . The dow, s p, russedow transporttation index all hitting record highs today. There was some talk overnight during trumps speech we didnt see a big spike in futures. After 2 00 a. M. They started to spike, never looked back, in fact gaining momentum. The dow is up 255 points right now. Since 20,000 it is up nearly 1000 points. What took us from 20,000 to the 21,000 mark which is about 5 . Apple 114 points. Goldman sachs, 114 points. Biggest gainers since 2000, johnson johnson. Retailers not participating in this rally. They see store closures, less demand, competition. Not seeing foot traffic. Retailers are not really participating. Other than that, financials, energy, health care, technology, all booming, zooming, whatever you want to call it, neil. We spoke to the traders around the floor, and they talked about the speech last night and they were saying