We know he did and he was attempting to put a marker down. This wont be forgotten and will come back. In the center we have the two africanamerican to served in the senate. By the muchrounded larger numbers of African Americans who served in the house. There is joseph rainey, the first africanamerican in the house. And it takes it all the way around to all of them who were there. I find it so poignant in that, when this was printed no one knew how long would it be. Did they think 20 years would be a long time . Did they think it would be just a moment. What did happen in this print it looks terribly damaged, like it has had a hard life. As if at some point someone took this and pasted it on probably a wall. Underneath that is wallpaper. Underneath the print and on top of the board is wallpaper. It was perhaps painted on someones wall. In sort of recognition of the things that happened. We acquired it in d. C. It may have never left the nations capital, unlike black representation that
United nations and nato. It was a war that was fundamentally about liberty, but it spawned independence movements and colonial wars that led to the creation of modern india, pakistan, ghana israel, and other states in a fermentation that continues to this day. We americans emerged from world war ii with extraordinary advantages that ensure prosperity for decades and a thriving industrial base, a population relatively unscarred by war, cheap energy, two thirds of the worlds gold supply, great optimism. As the major power in western europe mediterranean, and the pacific assisting atomic weapons and an army and navy and air force of unequal might possessing atomic weapons and the army and navy and air force of unequal might. It was described as the end of european supremacy. The war largely dispelled american isolationism even as it encouraged american exceptionalism as well as a penchant for military solutions and a self regard that led to some to label the epic the american century. Rem
Eagles, james taylor, and others. Early today starts right now. Good monday morning, im ayman mohyeldin. Im frances rivera. Thanks so much for being with us. More grim news over the weekend with the death toll rising. Now a criminal investigation has begun into that tragic Warehouse Party fire that claimed at least 33 lives in oakland, california, on friday night. Officials say some of the victims were teenagers. One was the son of a first responder. Authorities are still iden entire building, which had been housing artists. Nbcs stephen luke has the latest in oakland. Stephen, whats the latest that we know this morning . Reporter well, good morning. You mentioned that criminal investigation under way, and that has a lot of people wondering whether there is some specific piece of information that they have not yet released thats pushed them in that direction or whether its just out of an abundance of caution. Either way, here at 1 00 a. M. Around the county have gone to sleep and are n
And Kennedy Center honors, eagles, james taylor, and others. Early today starts right now. Good monday morning, im ayman mohyeldin. Im frances rivera. Thanks so much for being with us. More grim news over the weekend with the death toll rising. Now a criminal investigation has begun into that tragic Warehouse Party fire that claimed at least 33 lives in oakland, california, on friday night. Officials say some of the victims were teenagers. One was the son of authorities are still identifying victims and have not yet made their way through the entire building, which had been housing artists. Nbcs stephen luke has the latest in oakland. Stephen, whats the latest that we know this morning . Reporter well, good morning. You mentioned that criminal investigation under way, and that has a lot of people wondering whether there is some specific piece of information that they have not yet released thats pushed them in that direction or whether its just out of an abundance of caution. West coast
Would have passed, the exhibit on your way in tonight, marks an that markscument in an episode when president Abraham Lincoln directly interceded for american jews. Generale document is ulysses grants december 1862 general order to expel jews from the department of tennessee. Grant blamed jews for smuggling and demanded their immediate removal. Jewish citizens of paducah, kentucky appealed to president lincoln, expressing their outrage, and lincoln countermanded grants order. Histories cannot be written without the primary sources that tell us authentically what happened at a particular time. Grants order to expel jews and his later revocation of that order documents preserved here in the national archives, testify to a moment in history that many in the wider public are not aware of, yet it cannot be forgotten, because the records exist to tell us so. By gathering together and publishing the documents in his volume, dr. Zola has given access to a large number of primary source documen