Former, and most recently, Civil War Monuments and the militarization of america which one the book award from the society of civil war historians as best book of the year on the issues of the civil war era. Hes been the editor of several influential volumes, including a particularly still relevant and useful set of edited essays on reconstruction originally issued almost 15 years ago, but still relevant today and a topic we wrestle with today. As well as a number of edited volumes. We are delighted to have him join us today. I will lead him with the first question, if you are ready . You might be muted. Things we aret of going to want to touch on in a relatively brief time today. Monograph,arkable you approach memorials and all kinds of interesting ways that we will want to touch on as works of art, what happens if we context in a national rather than bifurcated into , northern, andrn confederate stories. And what cultural readings we can read from them beyond the meaning of the civil
Great have you with this it is r. T. International your top stories coming. Lets start with france which is going back International Law down the pandemic spiralling out of control it seems across europe french citizens will now need special certificates to move around their cities because the demand the tough measures starting on friday will last for at least a month. They bought the we are overwhelmed by the 2nd wave of film thats we now know with certainly be harder and deadlier than the 1st one from by day we will see a tosha of bars and restaurants all essential or nonessential shops will be closed and those forms that people in france needed during the 1st lockdown to leave home is at a step since they will be back the suggestion is that once again the french will only be able to leave their home if they have to do essential shopping if they have to go to the doctor says or if they need their one of our of daily exercises back to those really restrictive measures the one thing th
Own home in just a click or 2 we must truly truly be living in a brand new gilded age of prosperity. Yeah not so much new not at all apart from all of our gadgets of convenience and entertainment at our fingertips the meat hook reality is that according to the u. S. Labor department u. S. Jobless claims of risen over 800000 since august weve had more than 75000000 claims for Unemployment Insurance since the start of the pandemic all the way back in march in fact the number of u. S. Citizens living in poverty has jumped from 9 percent back in june to over a leavened per cent in september and that number is still rising showing no signs of future decline but things things arent all bad for some u. S. Citizens you see while main street crumbles from disease oppression and degradation wall street in our billionaire class well my friends they have been thriving you see while millions upon millions. Some lost their jobs and Health Insurance all across this country u. S. Billionaires saw thei
In the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. Cheryl this exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress and the jacob riis papers have been married with the photographs that are in the stellar collection at the museum of the city of new york. We picked the word copresentation very carefully because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum of the city of new york and that exhibit was called jacob riis revealing new yorks other half was slightly different. It looks at riis in a slightly different way, and sort of concentrating more on his biography, more on his photography. Here we are looking at riis as the journalist, because that is the strength of our collection. The papers here, which number 3000 in the Manuscript Division, are really featured well in this exhibition and sort of come to the forefront. Barb
Okay, thank you for coming out. Its wonderful to see you here today hello, my name is Christopher Mcknight nichols, im a historian at oregon state university, scholar of intellectual history of the u. S. Role in the world. I specialize in isolationism, internationalism, and globalization. My work is called promise and peril, america at the dawn of a global age, just out in paperback, you can buy a downstairs. I have the distinct pleasure of being the chair and coorganizer of this panel. Its a fascinating panel. Our panel is entitled turning. 1916, u. S. Foreign relations before and after that kept us out of war election. This is not just about u. S. Foreign relations, but also international relations. The spark for this panel is this intending all of the 1960 election in which Woodrow Wilson ran on a he kept us out of war platform, despite military intervention ongoing in the mexico and caribbean. This roundtable brings together superb historians to discuss whether 1916 should be as th