The aha is a membershipsupported organization, just a reminder. One has to say these things, anybody who watches Public Television or listens to public radio is ready for this. If you would like to become a member and support this type of content, membership links are located in the chat on zoom and in the comments on facebook live. I want to give an especially grateful thankful to History Channel for their generous sponsorship of this webinar. Lets get started. It is an honor to introduce todays panelists, Annette Gordonreed, professor of law and history at harvard university. And david blight, professor of history and director of the lehrman center for the study of slavery, abolition and resistance at yale university. The professors are Pulitzer Prize winning historians and they have won lots of other prizes as well. They have written and spoken frequently and insightfully on issues relating to monuments, history, memory and our nations continued failure to fully confront the implica
Our nations asked every weekend on cspan3. Historians david blight and annette gordonreed talked about recent debates over historical monuments, discussing how people could make decisions about removing or contextualizing them based on Historical Information and public sentiment. The American Historical Association hosted and recorded this event. James good afternoon. And i say that with some trepidation, because our audience is national and international. So, good morning to some of you and good evening to some of you. I am jim grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association. And this is an initial experiment in something that we are likely to call history behind the headlines. Considers Historical Context and perspective essential to decisionmaking in public culture and especially in all aspects of public policy. The aha is a membershipsupported organization just a reminder. , one has to say these things, anybody who watches Public Television or listens to pub
Jim good afternoon. And i say that with some trepidation, because our audience is national and international. So, good morning to some of you and good evening to some of you. I am jim grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association. And this is an initial experiment in something that we are likely to call history behind the headlines. The aha considers Historical Context and perspective essential to decisionmaking in public culture and especially in all aspects of public policy. The aha is a membershipsupported organization, just a reminder. One has to say these things, anybody who watches Public Television or listens to public radio is ready for this. If you would like to become a member and support this type of content, membership links are located in the chat on zoom and in the comments on facebook live. I want to give an especially grateful thankful to History Channel for their generous sponsorship of this webinar. Lets get started. It is an honor to introdu
News stations. Youre watching kron 4 news at 10. Today requiring all counties to close their indoor act to batteast their indoor operations this is in every county in the state of california. California is shutting down again as coronavirus cases surge governor Gavin Newsome announcing today a major step back in the reopening of the economy, thank you for joining us tonight at 10 im pam moore, im ken wayne. The governor ordered today all counties was close indoor operations in on the states watch list. The restrictions are even tighter kron 4 S Ella Sogomonian joins us live in the newsroom was which businesses have to close up shop and where pam the states latest orders come as hospital beds are filling up in some parts of the state. Infection rates rise the Governors Health order is 0 ring in on indoor businesses specifically all across california including 5 bay area counties that includes indoor operations at restaurants wineries tasting rooms Family Entertainment as museums movie t
Is christine pelosi, a san fransicoan, California Democratic womans chair and daughter of House Speaker nancy pelosi. Did i miss anything, christine . Good to see you. Nice to see you and good to be with everybody. Thank you. I like the backdrop there. Hey, as an italian woman living up with that statue, what is your reaction today . Well, i think eighth sign of the times and the growing grass roots pressure. There has been all over the country. For years to say, let have a reckoning with our past and lets also dedicate public spaces to people who were about healing, truth and reconciliation rather than division and i think the murder of george floyd, by the minneapolis pd for those eight minutes that we all saw really just galvanized and gave fresh energy to what was really happening in the Indigenous Peoples movement and the black lives movement for black and brown lives. Frankly as a cochair, the veterans and military council, i have been active on the effort to remove the confedera