Lincoln visited with Wounded Soldiers spent time with self , emancipated men, women and children, and drafted the emancipation proclamation. Joan cummins is a public historian, artist, and educator. As a program assistant, she supports their public facing programming, particularly for students and teachers. She works very closely with one of their programs called students opposing slavery for young abolitionists working to combat human trafficking. She is the cohost of a podcast, which i think is a terrific name, called q and abe. Welcome to history happy hour. Thanks so much for having me. Im excited to be here and to share you all about lincolns experience during the summer of his presidency. He lived at president lincolns cottage for three summers while he was president. The summer of 1862, 1863, and 1864. The family was planning to come out here again for the summer of 1865 when the president was killed. There were three main reasons the family moved to the cottage as opposed to st
The governments promised all students who achieved the required a level grades will be offered a place at their First Choice University. A prominent critic of the russian government is in intensive care his supporters say hes been poisoned. A man is found guilty of lacing baby food with shards of metal in a plot to blackmail the Supermarket Chain tesco. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Hashem abedi the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber has been sentenced to at least 55 years injail, for the murder of 22 people. Abedi refused to attend his two day sentencing hearing and face the families of those who died, who gave emotional statements about the impact of the attack in 2017. Number 10 have issued a statment from boris johnson, the Prime Minister, on the sentencing of hashem abedi. Mrjohnson says, the Manchester Arena attack was a horrifying and cowardly act of violence which targeted children and families. Those who were taken from us will never be forgotten, nor will the sp
Off. s make a bad combination in place tonight, excessive heat, driver dictation and now diablo wind. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. I am julie haener. To try to prevent fires, theyre taking a protective step to the first time this year and shutting off power. They confirmed the shutdowns are already underway, they are scheduled to happen between 9 00 and midnight. A total of 100 they confirmed the shutdowns are already underway, they are scheduled to happen between 9 00 and midnight. A total of 172,000 customers in 22 Northern California counties are affected, that includes the east side of santa rosa and Sonoma County and the calistoga area in napa county. Power is expected to be restored no later than wednesday evening. We have Live Team Coverage on the weather conditions, greg shows us how people are coping with the recordbreaking heat. Deborah gives us a look at how people in the north they are bracing for the power shut off but first lets go to our chief meteorologi
This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin tonight with breaking news. In a dramatic reversal by the head of the u. S. Postal service. At the same time, President Trump was stepping up his lttacks on universal mailin voting today, falsely suggesting it would lead to a rigged election. His handpicked postmaster general announced he would stop cutbacks at post offices nationwide. The decision by louis dejoy comes after blistering attacks from democrats and some republicans, accusing him of slowing down mail delivery in order to delay millions of mail in ballots this fall. States plan tot trump said the idea that some states plan to mail ballots to all registered voters could lead to the possibility that there wont be a result in this years election, leading to a doover. Well, the president repeated assaults on voting by mail will no doubt be front and center at the second n
Soldiers, spout spent time with self emancipated men, women and children and drafted the emancipation proclamation. Joan cummins is a public historian, artist and educator. Their public facing programming, particularly for students and teachers. She also works closely with one of their programs called students opposing slavery for young abolitionist working to combat human trafficking. She is the cohost of a podcast, called q and abe. Welcome to history happy hour. Thanks so much for having me. Im excited to be here and to share you all about lincolns experience during the summer of his presidency. He lived at the cottage for three summers while he was president. 1862, 1863 and 1864. The family was planning to come out again for the summer of 1865 when the president was killed. There were three main reasons the family moved to the cottage as opposed to staying in the white house through the summer. As many of you may know, summer in d. C. Can be very sticky and humid and unpleasant. Th