Especially about Public Health. We reached out and began speaking in january because we toin thinking about how implement the story. It has been a slow process for us. What point did you realize the pandemic would stretch into the summer and potentially into the winter . Historians, they thought about the difficultiesva and weaking a vaccinecc were pretty sure it would last for quite a while. Isstill dont know what happening, as you know and so we are still taking things weak by week in the museum. Steve so before mid march, what were your job duties and how has it changed over the past couple of months . Alexandra we had been planning a division of medicine for the museum and we started that were years ago. When the pandemic was getting, we were very deep into the planning part of it and we begin to think about now were going to have to change the exhibit to include covid19 and that meant we needed to collect objects related to covid19. Anyway but nowat it became imperative especially
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
President trump in the atlantic story. If you are a supporter of joe biden, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are a supporter of President Trump, we want to hear from you at 202 7488002 202 7488001. If you are undecided or supporting another candidate, we want to hear from you at 202 7488002. Ofyou are a retired member the military, i really want to hear from you this morning. 202 7488003. You can also text us your 202 7488003. Story talking about the that came out in the atlantic magazine yesterday, which has been the talk of the election so far. I will give you some context on what we are talking about. Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would be disheveled in the rain and because he did not believe it important to honor american war dead. According to four people, in a conversation with senior Staff Members on the morning of the scheduled visit, trump said why should i go to that cemetery, it is full of losers . More thanrred to the 1800 ma
Traveled to california, the physical geography of the area and evolving Technology Used to mine gold. Good morning everybody. The topic of our lecture is the history of the gold rush and i will talk mainly about california in the years following 1848. But gold played a very, very Important Role in American History. Think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinating about was the quest for gold. An unquenchable desire for Precious Metals, gold above all, but also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold wa
Ahead of election day 2020. At 9 00 a. M. , dr. Howard editorinchief of the journal of the American Medical Association discusses the u. S. Response to covid19. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Camera shootings of africanamericans at the hands of police has caused unrest in the United States for the past few years and has turned into a Major Campaign issue in this years president ial race. Whether it is black lives matter, defund the police or other slogans and movements, how Law Enforcement relates to the communities they protect is on everyones minds these days. Morning,ion to this what is your view of Law Enforcement in your community . We are going to open up regional lines. That means if you are in the eastern or central time zone, you have a telephone number. You are in the mountain and , you have a zones number. And if you are Law Enforcement watching this morning, we want to know what you are seeing and hearing. We have a special line for you. Keep in mind, you c