Prevalent. The virus is still only found in mosquitoes outside the country, and no cases have been transmitted in the continental u. S. In february, president obama requested emergency funds to fight zika. But summer is near, mosquito season is coming, and the centers for Disease Control is about to release a National Rapid response plan. All it needs is about 2 billion of your tax dollars. Journalist Jonathan Katz and his wife were working in mosquitoinfested haiti last january. Jonathan so, we were wearing long sleeve clothing. We were sleeping under a mosquito net that was treated with permethrin, which is a powerful insect repellent. Our clothes were treated with permethrin, and we were basically bathing ourselves in deet every day the way that we always do. Sharyl they still got bitten by mosquitoes and came down with the dreaded zika virus. Jonathan one night, in the middle of the night, claire started to feel sick, and we were wondering what it was for about a day, until the tel
Tv and sunday afternoon at 2 on American History tv on cspan3. Every weekend on cspan3 48 hours of American History. And this week, with the house and senate in recess all week for president s day, we are bringing you American History tv in primetime on cspan3. Tonight, two discussions from the american historical Associations Annual meeting. First, a look at the social upheaval of the 1970s. Then a conversation on historians being viewed as public intellectuals. Up next on American History tv on cspan3, a look at the social changes of the 1970s such as the aftermath of watergate, increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the
Increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. All of us were going to speak for maybe about ten minutes, so kind of making a few brief remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking you about the 1970s, what this unique time means to us today and then we would like to open it up and have a lot of time for conversation, both among both with each other and most importantly, with the audience. So we are going to be sticking to a pretty, you know pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for conversation. So, one of the things that we were thinking abou
So, one of the things that we were thinking about in setting up this panel is the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking you about the 1970s, both in the contemporary political imagination of the time and also in historical scholarship. From water bait to the Energy Crisis, the urban crisis the fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is infused with this sense of danger and awareness of historical change. And histories of the decade, too, often treat it in these kind of heightened terms. Theres as many people have observed, the period of 1970s has gone from being easily dismissed historical footnote or a kind of punchline of some sort to being sort of interesting the 1960s, 1980s to being seen as in some ways a moment when many of the things that were most aware of in our own present world really came into existence. History such as nixon land the invisible bridge laura kalmans right star rising, no direction home jeff cowys staying alive, michael foleys front porch politics the
150 years ago, on may 23 and 24 of 1865, two military processions in washington, d. C. Called the grand review of the armies drew thousands of spectators to pennsylvania avenue. President Andrew Johnson cabinet and government officials and general ulysses s. Grant watched from this reviewing stand in front of the white house. On may 23rd, an estimated 80,000 soldiers of the army of the potomac led by general meade took about six hours to pass before the reviewing stand. On may 24th general william t. Sherman led 65,000 soldiers of the army of tennessee and army of georgia on the same route. Up next on american artifacts a reenactment of the parade that celebrated the end of the civil war. [snare drums rattling] shoulder. Arms. My name is dr. Malcolm beech and im president of the United States colored troops Living History Association and im from north carolina. Today were having a reenactment called the grand review parade. This, in fact, is a reenactment of the victory parade that was