My name is Chris Mackowski, editor in chief of emerging civil war. Delighted to have you with us. Our first speaker today is derrick maxfield. Hes an associate professor and batavia new york, hometown of emory upton for those of you who are from spots of india. Derek has recently earned fame for his brand new book as part of the emerging civil war series. It is called hellmira, the unions most notorious prison of war camp in elmira, new york. Thank you very much, im very pleased to be here to talk about my latest project. Prisoner of war camps in general have been quite a surprise to me. Ive studied the civil war since i was quite young and i knew the length of the tragedy during the civil war. But it was eyeopening to me the extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. Over 56,000 died in prisoner of war camps over that time. Just over 500,000 incarcerated in total. Although we understand that this is just a small number of casualties con
Senator an landrieu races cassidy like a skier might face a run off election with an avalanche. Theres still time for one last hail Mary Landrieu. The pipeline has been six years in the making but the timing of the house and senate votes were politics pure and simple. The house will bass introduced by Louisiana Republican bill cassidy. The senate bill by louisiana democrat Mary Landrieu. Jon oh my god, its so embarrassing. They both wore the same transparent ploy to congress. Thats just a shame. You know the Keystone Pipeline long been an environmental bugaboo. You can never pass the democratically held senate, unless they were willing to sell out a core constituency and vote for this Keystone Pipeline bill just to save one senate seat that doesnt even change the balance of power. To boost landrieus chances at the polls some of her fellow democrats dropped their opposition to the bill. [laughter] jon i just said that would be stupid to do. [laughter] so the party that lost the Midterm
Jon welcome to the daily show. My names jon stewart. Our guest tonight from the theory of everything incredible performance Eddie Redmayne will be joining us on the program tonight. But first, you may remember democrats took a bit of a ball smashing. [laughter] in the Midterm Election but one democratic senator still has a chance. Senator landrieu is facing against republican challenger bill cast de. Proponents poll show him up by 16 points and another show him up by about 20. Jon so, up by 20 points. Senator an landrieu races cassidy like a skier might face a run off election with an avalanche. Theres still time for one last hail Mary Landrieu. The pipeline has been six years in the making but the timing of the house and senate votes were politics pure and simple. The house will bass introduced by Louisiana Republican bill cassidy. The senate bill by louisiana democrat Mary Landrieu. Jon oh my god, its so embarrassing. They both wore the same transparent ploy to congress. Thats just a
Smashing. [laughter] in the Midterm Election but one democratic senator still has a chance. Senator landrieu is facing against republican challenger bill cast de. Proponents poll show him up by 16 points and another show him up by about 20. Jon so, up by 20 points. Senator an landrieu races cassidy like a skier might face a run off election with an avalanche. Theres still time for one last hail Mary Landrieu. The pipeline has been six years in the making but the timing of the house and senate votes were politics pure and simple. The house will bass introduced by Louisiana Republican bill cassidy. The senate bill by louisiana democrat Mary Landrieu. Jon oh my god, its so embarrassing. They both wore the same transparent ploy to congress. Thats just a shame. You know the Keystone Pipeline long been an environmental bugaboo. You can never pass the democratically held senate, unless they were willing to sell out a core constituency and vote for this Keystone Pipeline bill just to save one
[laughter] in the Midterm Election but one democratic senator still has a chance. Senator landrieu is facing against republican challenger bill cast de. Proponents poll show him up by 16 points and another show him up by about 20. Jon so, up by 20 points. Senator an landrieu races cassidy like a skier might face a run off election with an avalanche. Theres still time for one last hail Mary Landrieu. The pipeline has been six years in the making but the timing of the house and senate votes were politics pure and simple. The house will bass introduced by Louisiana Republican bill cassidy. The senate bill by louisiana democrat Mary Landrieu. Jon oh my god, its so embarrassing. They both wore the same transparent ploy to congress. Thats just a shame. You know the Keystone Pipeline long been an environmental bugaboo. You can never pass the democratically held senate, unless they were willing to sell out a core constituency and vote for this Keystone Pipeline bill just to save one senate sea