President trump signed an order establishing a commission to promote patriotic education. That same day a Panel Discussed History Education in the United States. The white house hosted and provided this video. This is a panel on the recovery of the history of our country which is being distorted and we have several experts who know about the distortion and history. We will talk about them and people correcting history. Stake andself its at freedom is at stake, but also humanity is at stake in this argument. I am teaching a course on totalitarian novels. 1984 Winston Smiths job is to rewrite history. Changes,e the party contemporary or old, every written reference in every book and article and every encyclopedia and every publication is corrected and the old version is burned. The whole thing is reprinted a new. It must be an enormous effort, the main work of the regime of 1984. He does not fully understand why they do that, but he learned in the end, and what the most remarkable themes
Environment issues during this time. Madeline levine, phd, has long been a leading voice in thinking about wellbeing and anxiety in use today and has a new book out, ready or not, preparig our kids are really uncertain future. Fn Christine Carter is also a leading voice in the science of happiness for children and its application with a wonderful new book out called the new adolescence. Thank you all for joining me and joining this conversation. This is such an extraordinary time, really transformative and transcended and i mean, everybody sees you and your ligaments and the want to take stock of her of you guys are. How is it going right now for you guys during this covid19 anthemic . Interesting how we start to look upon our life in a new way. Trysting, how about you . Its been humbling. My life has changed quite a lot and things about have been really wonderful. I have all four of my kids home and three out of the four of them were away at school, so they are back and thats wonderfu
Today to get the city back to business. And cornell, you heard from a lot of Business Owners there. Yeah, dion and eric, we certainly did. Many Business Owners say they are fighting for survival. They say reopening their doors really needs to happen sooner than later. Open up open up reporter dozens of people rallied in downtown livermore to support small businesses, urging local leaders to allow them to reopen. Livermore was nothing before these businesses came in. And to let them sit here and fall to the wayside blindly is not okay with me or my family. Were hurting. Weve had zero revenue for two months now. Reporter darren and Andrea Liggett own anytime fitness gym. They believe they can safely reopen their doors now. People are buying groceries. I really dont see the difference. Right . Because we can very easily move equipment around and keep our members safe. I just want to survive for my family. I have two kids reporter nail salon owner nancy lam made this emotional plea. You kn
Important, and also fun to feature our own amazing staff, to feature their research and just the way things were thinking about currently at montpelier. So, it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, which is where we are gathered today, in claude moore hall, the home of the robert h. Smith center for the constitution. Emily has been at montpelier for six years. And she is responsible for all of the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for police officers, programs for International Groups that are visiting the area. She has an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and a masters degree in Museum Studies from the very Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new york. And shes going to talk to us today about madison and the lead up to the constitution. Thank you. All right. I need two seconds to get my powerpoint up because you cant do anything
Montpelier president s day celebration. We have a tradition of hosting speakers for a special president s day weekend program. And this year, we thought it would be a nice change and important, and also fun to feature our own amazing staff, to feature their research and just the way things were thinking about currently at montpelier. So, it is my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, emily voss. Emily is the director of education at the robert h. Smith center for the constitution, which is where we are gathered today, in claude moore hall, the home of the robert h. Smith center for the constitution. Emily has been at montpelier for six years. And she is responsible for all of the programming of the center, which involves programs for teachers, programs for for police officers, programs for International Groups that are visiting the area. She has an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and a masters degree in museum study from the very Prestigious Program in cooperstown, new