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American history article john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted, religion of the continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. Scholars of american religious history have proliferated over the past 15 years, yet in political history, religion has often retained a jackinthebox quality colorful, surprising, anomalous, idiosyncratic, but left on the periphery to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today, our roundtable will address how religion matters in american political history, and we will do so in three ways. First, i will ask each of our panelists to focus on a way in which religion matters that is, in their own research, how religion plays a role in spaces that they are working on, but also how centering religion in these spaces gives us a different narrative, a different story than if it were on the periphery or ignored in an way. Second, we will tal
Need both democrats and republicans to come together to get this legislation the legislation completed and it looks like its on its way but we need both and it should be for people that are working for the workers and if you look and you see we have a lot of people that are affected by that and its a very positive development so we have to get a bipartisan approval of that and hopefully that will happen today the department of education is also announcing the availability of more than 6000000000 dollars in emergency Grant Funding to assist College Students impacted by the cancellation of classes and the suspension of housing. A lot of people had. A lot of things suspended housing is one of them previously we waive student loan payments for 6 months of student loan payments have been waived for 6 months and will discuss it after that may go further although this medical war separated our citizens for a period of time its also united our entire nation i think i can say like almost never
Historians talk about religious influence on u. S. Politics and Foreign Policy in the 20th century, and address the question of why this is not a highly studied topic. This was part of a two Day Conference called remaking american political history. Thank you all for coming. I will be chairing this roundtable today. I will give you a brief overview of what were going to talk group,nd introduce our and then we will get started. 15 years ago [inaudible] oh, there we go. Thank you. There is a switch on the mic. 15 years ago, in a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted, religion of the continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. Of american religious history have proliferated over the past 15 years, yet in political history, religion has often retained a jackinthebox surprising,olorful, anomalous, idiosyncratic, but left on the perip
We saw a little bit of volatility with stocks starting the day on a down note. Crude oil is the one to watch after this attack on oil tankers after the tanker incident in the gulf of oman. We will be speaking to reporters on the ground. This is the picture for the u. S. 10 year yield. Also looking at the pound but this is the first day were we have u. K. Lawmakers doing the first round of voting. Voting to choose the next Prime Minister want to choose the leader of the tory party. Minister and to choose the leader of the tory party. Coming up next, we speak to the chief executive of the Swiss National bank after their policy decision. But first, lets get bloomberg first word news. Hong kong lawmakers have scrapped a debate on controversial extradition legislation as tensions remain high between police and protesters. The question turns to what happens next and if this will become a prolonged protest. Some say hong kong is not a safe place to keep assets. If you are an investment banker