Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
Narrator the time is september in the year 1620. The good ship mayflower is carrying pilgrims across the sea to america. But who were the pilgrims . Why did they leave their homes . The answer is in the history of plymouth plantation, written by william bradford, second governor of the colony. Bradfords history begins with religious problems in england , where a new ruler, james the first, became king in 1603. As king, james was also supreme head of the church of england, the official church. But some people objected to the rules andes rituals of the church of england. They withdrew from it, and were called separatists. The story of their religious persecution in england, how they became pilgrims, and how they eventually found religious freedom, was all recorded by william bradford. Many therefore of the lords free people joined themselves into a church or state. They were of towns and villages in england. But after they continued together for about a year and kept their meetings every
We think of the pilgrims as our forbearers and we have a right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new englanders settling at the time did not imagine they were settling United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations, gold, wealth, material wealth. The settlers of new england were driven by religious zeal. Most of them were puritans, men and women of a company spent who believed the church of england had not gone far enough to purge itself of its corrupt aspects and would despair of a cleansing renewal ever coming in their lifetimes, and hence their decision to emigrate to the new beginning. In particular were not only calvinists but separatists, meaning they had separated themselves from the aurch of england as they
Banking systems, the impact of covid19, and communities of color. This runs an hour and 45 minutes. Today we welcome the regulators, the comptroller of the currency, brian brooks. The federal deposit insurance corporation, jelena rodney hood. Since the passage of the coronavirus aid relief and Economic Security act or cares act of your agencies have taken many meaningful steps to mitigate the meaningful impact of the pandemic and provide conditions that will lead to a forceful recovery. On october 30, the Federal Reserve announced changes to its main Street Lending facility including decreasing the minimum loan size for priority loan facilities from 250,000 to 100,000, and allowing borrowers loan for theirpp outstanding debt. Your agency should continue to carefully review the regulatory and supervisory frameworks, adjusting where necessary to bolster Financial Institutions to support economic recovery, which, by the way, has shown positive signs over the past several months. On octobe
Really fight. I couldnt going, i didnt realize at that time, because of the color of my skin. The story of africanamericans in world war ii is indeed a legacy of patriotism and valor. In 1941 americans looked at their world and saw war everywhere. Across the atlantic adolph hitlers german troops occupied nearly every inch of europe from france to russia to the baltic sea and in north africa. In the pacific, the Japanese Army and navy had already captured parts of china, manchuria, korea, and a number of nearby islands. Pearl harbor would soon stun the United States into war. Monday morning, the first thing i did, was go down to the Army Recruiting station to enlist in the service of my country. I was told there was no quota for black troops. Youve got to remember that this country was very discriminatory, segregated, and there was no change. First of all, black sailors, as sailors per se, other than as mess attendants or stewards, werent permitted into the navy. Given the fact that i w