People and events in a temporal setting. You do not have the civil war without the increasingly fractious and antagonistic sectional posturing. That takes place in the 1850s. It was compounded by two weak president s bad decisionmaking. The political crisis of the 1850s is a term, as best i can tell, that was invented by michael holt, professor of history for many years at the niversity of virginia. In fact, the mentor to both Rachel Sheldon and me. I think i was his first phd students, and rachel maybe his final one. That is quite the bookend. The political crisis of the 1850s was a piece that ran through michaels lectures at yale, and when he joined the faculty at the university of virginia in the mid1970s. It became the basis for a book, a very influential book that he wrote, and it has had staying power in the conversation amongst scholars ever since. It is pretty easy to understand why that is so. You just have to think about what happens after the gold rush in california as the w
I am not specifically a civil war historian, but i moonlight in the field. Thatnk it is appropriate we open our discussion of the political crisis of the 1850s as the prelude to what follows in this next five days. History is fundamentally about people and events in a temporal setting. You do not have the civil war without the increasingly fractious and antagonistic sectional process during posturing. Weaks compounded by two president s bad decisionmaking. The political crisis of the 1850s is a term, as best i can tell, that was invented by ofhael holt, professor history for many years at the university of virginia. His first phd students, and rachel maybe his final one. That is quite the bookend. Thepolitical crisis of 1850s was a piece that ran through michaels lectures at yale, and when he joined the faculty at the university of virginia in the mid1970s. ,t became the basis for a book a very in tool influential book, that he wrote, and it has had staying power in the conversation am
I didnt want that stress. So far, no major meltdowns at dia as the holiday rush takes off for the week. Operations here in denver appear to be back to normal despite a pilot strike. Some cities are dealing with delays according to the flight aware misery map. Some of the larger slowdowns are at chicagos ohare. Throughout the day to my dia its been busy but no significant backups as we have seen in the past. This year, tsa has more agents, more canines and anxious staff hired by the airports and airlines to help. This year, all those things have come together and are planninggas a partnership and the community and were all focused on making experience the travelers a positive one. Instantly busy tonight. Sunday is expected to be even easier. Breaking records as far as the number of people passing through. Airlines and added flights late at night and early in the morning. Tsa is aware of this and say they have a plan of action, action people will be brought in. These lines will be somewh
Roll through the Morning Hours but getting busy later. Take a look at i270 and its paused. It is a slow go this morning. Back to school and back to traffic i like that one. Breaking news outside of washington d. C. Now a building went up in flames in a suburb outside of maryland. Investigators believe natural gas fed the flames and caused the explosion. Crews say 57 people are still unaccounted for this morning. Video from above shows the destruction. Take a look and part of the apartment has collapsed here. Building debris is scattered throughout a nearby parking lot and right now people are still train to the plane is back up and running this morning. A damaged cable cut power to the tracks on the aline yesterday forcing passengers to top off and take a bus. This defeats the purpose. Jamie leary is live this morning at Union Station. There were so many unhappy people. How are things going this morning . Things are running smoothly this morning. The first train left at 3 15 right on t
5 31. Good morning, everybody. We have a snow storm in colorado. It has been a while since weve seen this. Deer creek school delayed 90 minute and clay county in bailey delayed 90 minutes, but thats it for the school delays. No cancellations today. We start this half hour with a look at our cold commute this morning. Lets get right into it. Shawn chitnis in lakewood at 6th and sims and what you could be dealing with out the door. Hey, shawn. Good morning, britt. Theres streets beyond me, theres some slush forming at this point. There was some snow that got onto the roads and the side streets, but on the bigger streets, youre going to run into some snow definitely here in lakewood. Thats going to make for a challenge as you go forward with your commute. Lets see you what we saw earlier in lakewood and denver and the tech center. Descent snow falling overnight. Not sticking in a lot of different places. At least not on the street. The trees and plants pecking that up. We have seen plows