Releasing students early. John Andrea Blanford is live at a high school where students are in the process of going home right now. Andrea . Andrea many parents got here as early as 10 45 to pick up their students after wake county schools announced they were releasing early. You can see school buses has picked up students and only a few groups are left, looking like they are waiting for their best to get here. These buses are running on staggered routes. There in the process of needing to get home. Staff will stay with children until they all get a ride home. They are watching this weather system closely. They will shelter in place if need be. The district said it is planning to get 90 of students home before the worst of the storm hits this afternoon. 2 004 00 so they are aiming to get all students home by 2 00. Some parents came to the school to pick their students up. He takes the bus but today is one of those days where you want them to get home safe. Back out here live, you can se
Military policy towards Southern Civilians. After he wrote that book, i first met him. He came to the chicago civil war roundtable, where i was a member, and talked about the book. He maintains the war historians website, focusing on military history and National Security affairs, winning the 2015 cleopatra award for the best individual blog, for his wonderfully titled blog then out of the stone age. In other words, grimsley is an awardwinning historian in three media. His books ono civil war topics which are listed in your program, mark has written an taught more generally on military history. An sae wrote for his coedited book, civilians in the path of war, is his talk today. Im sured redskins, you can get your answer answer by dr. Grimsley. Military conduct, a comparative perspective. He is no stranger to the museum programs. He spoke in this auditorium, as a matter of fact, 12 years ago as a part of the evening series lectures on hard war. We are very pleased to welcome back to the
Chernow into a rock star. It is true for years ron was recognized as one of our great contemporary historians. His life of George Washington won a pulitzer prize. His history of the house of morgan received the National Book award. His biography of Alexander Hamilton was a New York Times best seller. But lets be real. Before hamilton became a sensation, ron was not exactly what anyone would call a household name. He once said to a journal when he was told in the hundreds every week ron replied wiftfully his books usually drew about 30 letters. Now thanks to hamilton ron gets a multiple of that number every week. Now thats stardom. Im sure ron finds even more satisfying how excited hamilton has made people about American History. This one burst of musical genius has turned the Founding Fathers into, well, hip hop theyve gone from being formerly known as dead white men to living, breathing, multi racial figures whose songs young people constantly download and whose cast album just won th
People voted into city Council Nobody quit. Theyre all still friends. And that is something that i think is very much important now to find an alternative to improve democracy. Because violence is an alternative. And i think there is a universal need that lets take this negativity to turn into something positive. It could be called the pool party. [laughter] for the clown party or what about the happy party . Host the party has continued the people that remain in office from that same election but now they call it a Bright Future . Yes. But that is no more and those who continued with politics they merged into one Political Party that is called Bright Future and is now the second or Third Largest Political Party in iceland. Because technically it is not a Political Party because because i do something to color something a ended is the combination of anarchism. But it is not democratic. [laughter] what do you mean . Were only a group of 20 people. Hint people ask me how can i join . I s
Before we fill the rest of the room. End to here at the qn day starts. I would like to welcome john bassett iii. [applause] and looking forward to hearing from you tonight sir it can i also particularly with like to welcome any spokesperson here from henry county has you share the spotlight as well. I can tell you about all the amazing words beth macy has won from her writings. But the real mark of her gift as a journalist asks eight simple question how many of you remember her story . By a show of hands how many remember young selena with all the patrons and cheering her on at harvard . [applause] or award wedding stories witting stories about the refugees living in our community but then children were going to buy stocks with 12 languages spoken . Or her series about teenage mothers. Or how families were navigating caregiving for their elderly loved ones or maybe one of her columns printed with precious think that instructed from 2005. [inaudible] [laughter] friends of bill i bet we