Im a. D. And digger halperin, the senior mellon postdoctoral fellow in womens history public history at the New York Historical society. Tonights program, the chinese lady gaga way in early america, will. Approximately 45 minutes, including 15 minutes for questions and answers at the end. And now im delight to introduce tonights speakers. Nancy davis is curator emeritus at the smithsonian and institutions National Museum of american history. Thats curator. She on exhibitions focusing on material asian influence, American Culture, migration and immigration and business history. Her scholarly work focuses on womens history, asian influence on American Culture and sinoamerican trade. She has a ph. D. In american studies from Washington University in washington and has taught at the level at numerous colleges universities. Book the chinese lady often in early america came out from Oxford University press in july 2019. Shes currently working on another book based on the english woman, harri
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Hello, im bonnie erbe. Welcome to to the contrary, a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. Up first, the latest from the gridiron. The nfls Domestic Violence and child abuse scandals continue this week, as media reports of more abusers and disappearing sponsors mount. Top corporate sponsors are standing by the nfl for now, even those run by women. The female chief executive officers of pepsico, General Motors and Campbell Soup co. , run companies that pay hundreds of millions annually for the right to attach their brands to the nfl. Female activists pushed those ceos to speak out and by weeks end pepsicos indra nooyi issued a statement decrying the abusive, violent behavior but supporting nfl commissioner Roger Goodell as a, quote, man of integrity. So far nike and castrol have dropped personal contracts with Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson that over child abuse charges and Radisson Hotels has suspended local support for the team. Peterson has b
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Growing concern about global terrorism and worldwide condemnation of the downing of that malaysian airliner yesterday but the u. S. Believes ukrainian separatists backed by russia. At the white house today, president obama revealed one american, a u. S. And dutch citizen was on board the downed jet while he called for a seize fire by russian separatists and a thorough investigation into the cause of the incident. This was a global tragedy, an asian airliner was destroyed in european skies filled with citizens from many countries. So there has to be a credible International Investigation into what happened. The u. N. Security counsel endorsed this investigation and we will hold all members including russia to their word. John harwood joins us from washington with the latest on Malaysia Airlines 17 and reaction from leaders around the world. What is the latest out of washington . Tyler, what the president was trying to do was to put pressure on and isolate Vladimir Putin. You know, hes b