Of 350. Org about the latest of elements in the upcoming peoples climate march in new york. His burger king becoming a tax dodging whopper . We look at the fast food giants plans to move its headquarters from the u. S. To canada after it merges with tim hortons. An activist guide to archiving video. Once again, Police Beating up on people. As more videos of Police Brutality to continue to make headlines, we will speak with yvonne ng of witness, group that trains and supports people using video in a fight for human rights. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. And ukrainian governments are accusing russia of launching a new crossborder operation to back separatist rebels in eastern ukraine. On wednesday, officials in washington and kiev said Russian Forces had moved across the border for the third time this week. Effectively, opening a third front ukraines battle with the rebels. The state Departmen
Administration is abandoning attempts to have commerce agreed to a illegally Binding International climate deal. We will speak with Bill Mckibben of 350. Org about the latest of elements in the upcoming peoples climate march in new york. His burger king becoming a tax dodging whopper . We look at the fast food giants plans to move its headquarters from the u. S. To canada after it merges with tim hortons. An activist guide to archiving video. Once again, Police Beating up on people. As more videos of Police Brutality to continue to make headlines, we will speak with yvonne ng of witness, group that trains and supports people using video in a fight for human rights. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. And ukrainian governments are accusing russia of launching a new crossborder operation to back separatist rebels in eastern ukraine. On wednesday, officials in washington and kiev said Russian Forces
Steve comes from an entirely different background. He has all the credentials for anyone going through medical and psychiatric work both in 5 00 deem ya and in public and private service. But, rather than go through a recitation of his ceil denble id rather give you some insight to steve as a writer, researcher, historian. In 41 years last 25, as the civil war specialist and lincoln curator, i entertained many prospective writers and very seasoned authors. We would talk and, occasionally, i really could be of some service. I was responsible for bringing in new material. Neither purchasing or accepting donations of rare manuscripts. It had so few users on record. It was really a contest about a contest set up for civil war veterans who lost their right arm, many of them lost their right arm or leg. They applied the object was to stimulate them or train thems into the use of the opposite limb. With a 500 top prize and that was so successful, it repeated several times. The life writing of
Richardson. She chronicles the evolution of the party of lincoln and examines the origins of the party in the slaveholding south, arguing it was founded to advocate for the middle class against elite plantation owners. She also looks at the republican figures who defined the party like president Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt, and ronald , reagan. The National History center of the American Historical Association at the Wilson Center cohosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. Host it is my real pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson today, someone whose work i have been reading and admiring for some time now. She is a professor of history at boston college. And every time i think i have caught up with what she has written, she produces yet another book. So i have to keep reading but i do so with great pleasure. She has written five books on various aspects of American History. She is a 1992 graduate of Harvard Universitys program in the history of American Civilizat
His mind, images he wouldnt be able to report, however, subconscious they were, maybe got a flickr of something as he lay there across the street. My hope is that as he lay dying lincoln was able to call to mind the image of even jesus on the cross, perhaps, but certainly my hope is that he would have had the knowledge that historic irony was about to take place. He was about to die, having been shot all the very day of jesuss crucifixion. And that would send him into a martyrdom like none other. Maybe he had some inkling that this was his fate. Of course, as is just my fantasy. But we do know, i think, the during the day of april 14, he may have been looking forward happily to the knights of thinking the night of thinking that lay ahead. Take you. [applause] thank you. [applause] richard i see a questioner,. A quick question about what motivated you to write your book given that you would written previous books about religious history in america. Like slaves the shift to lincoln . Wha