She challenges the notion that the midwest is merely a collection of flyover states, s collections. On this talk is part of the fifth annual midwestern conference hosted by the helen stein center at granville university. Good morning. My name is eric. I am an associate professor of africanamerican studies and history at the university of illinois or vanish and pain. Urbana champaign. Ours my honor to introduce keynote speaker, my friend and colleague, dr. Kristin hoganson. She is professor of United States history at the university of illinois at urbana champaign. She specializes in the history of the United States, cultures of u. S. Imperialism, transnational history, and the midwest. Professor hoganson has enjoyed a productive and accomplished academic career sense achieving her phd in history from yale in 1995. Following graduate school, she taught at harvard for five years before accepting a position in history at the university of illinois. In terms of her professional service, sh
Addison. Addison. Thanks, dawn. One minute past thanks, dawn. One minute past midday. Heres our top story. The met office is warning of possible danger to life as storm anthony hits parts of the uk. Theyve issued an amber warning for southwestern parts of england and wales until 7 pm. This evening. Strong winds could cause flying debris , power cuts cause flying debris, power cuts and travel disruption. And travel disruption. Meanwhile, a yellow weather warning for rain is in place for Northern Ireland with flooding possible where the journalist nathan rao told us what to expect at wind speeds of this storm. Storm anthony are expected to be around 75 mile per hour gusts on the coasts and 55 mile per hour inland. Its not the strong storm that weve seen, but because of the time of year, the leaves, the trees are all in full leaf and its holiday season. The schools are off. And where its going to be hitting the this storm hitting the impact of this storm hitting today is likely to be grea
There today than august as storm anthony brings widespread heavy rain, a risk of gales and disruption. Ill have the full details coming up soon. Yeah, well be telling you everything you need to know about that. Good morning. Im anne diamond. And im Martin Daubney and this breakfast on gb news. This is breakfast on gb news. Its going to be a very stormy , very nasty weather wise. Stormy, very nasty weather wise. This weekend, isnt it . Where did Global Warming go . Where is august gone. Yeah, well, its like were writing it off already. Its gone down the pan and. And, of course, it coincides with the school holidays. My family are in scotland. Hello. If youre watching, youre probably going probably not. Theyre going to miss think first its miss it. I think at first its going batter into the going to batter into the south west up way. South west coast up that way. But what a british but yeah, what would a british summer be without terrible weather . I know. I mean, ive just recently been
st helens beat castleford by 20 points to 12 to restore their four point lead at the top of superleague. they survived a late fight back to secure their 18th win in 22 games this season. elsewhere there were wins for leeds rhinos and catalans dragons. italy s francesco bagnaia won the british motogp at silverstone to move up to fourth in the riders standings. french riderjohann zarco had lead from pole, but crashed out onjust the fifth lap as he chased his first victory in the top category. and in cricket s hundred competition willjacks hit a match winning 81 runs as oval invincibles picked up their first win of the season by beating welsh fire by 39 runs in cardiff. just time for a quick look at the medal table. australia still top of the standings, they ve been there right from the start of the games they ve won a huge 61 gold medals so far. 165 in total. but hosts england are doing their best to catch up. 5a golds for england including that brilliant victory for the wo
the legislation passed after a marathon session during which republicans attempted to further stall its passage. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. see what they are focusing on on their front pages. with me are the parliamentary journalist tony grew and the journalist and broadcaster, caroline frost. good evening to you both. let s have a look at some of the front pages before we discuss them. the cost of living crisis and what politicians have been saying about it dominates the front pages again. the times leads on a poll of voters, warning the tory leadership candidates to tackle rising prices before cutting taxes. the mirror splashes on a call by the former prime minister gordon brown for urgent action to deal with the rising cost of living. and the ft says that liz truss currently the favourite over rishi sunak in the leadership contest is facing pressure to provide more help for poorer households. the telegraph l