Kathleen rooney and miles harvey talk about how they approach Historical Research for fiction and nonfiction work, at 6 00 p. M. On the civil war, scott hartwig, discussing his research on the battle of antietam. At 8 00 p. M. , Patrick Allitt discusses richard nixon, his National Security adviser henry kissinger, and their key Foreign Policy initiatives. And former u. S. Senator sam nun, watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Up next on American History Tv University of minnesota professor sage matthew discusses how world war i affected africanamericans. She says that the promise of a better life because of military service in the war was largely denied by the reality of jim crow america. The National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri hosted this talk. It lasts about an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, good afternoon, thank you for coming to this session. My name is chad williams. It is my great pleasure and honor to serve as chair for
A little fog in oakland. Not much. Santa rosa 53. Embarcadero headed northeast with a northwest at three. 55 degrees. Not that bad. West southwest oakland, Berkeley Hills. New pekin mount diablo do north at 2143. Mount diablo with gusts almost up to 50. Not in fact real are warmer. San jose cooler. This is wind driven. A little bit of breeze. A dry air mass and it will be sunny today. Over to sal now on a monday. Anything you want to get to . Still pretty quiet out there. We dont have a lot going on. Im looking at what we see and it looks pretty good. The toll. That plaza looking good. Driving into San Francisco this week i dont. We will get a big crowd. We are getting closer to the holiday and i think some people are taking time off right now its off to a good start. Lets go back to the headlines. Topping our news, happening today the man suspected of being the Golden State Killer is expected to plead guilty to several charges. In exchange 74 yearold Joseph Dangelo would avoid the Dea
Temptation to pack the local parks, but that might be easier said than done this is a live look outside looking out over downtown San Francisco temperatures were higher than usual today, making parks and. Any open space is a welcome sight for those out on the memorial day weekend and the warming trend around the bay area will continue in the days ahead with some areas expected to see scorching temperatures some into the triple digits. Lot of people across San Francisco got out to enjoy the sunsoaked threeday weekend dolores park jackson park, the marina green. Also visitors who were sunbathing and picnicking out and about and then to build and in anticipation of the crowds, the city marked those white circles on the grass in some spots, its an effort to help people maintain social distancing. Kron fours dan thorn visit some of the parts cross city joins us now live with how people reacted to all of this stand. Well ken and pam is yuan mention the mayor has repeatedly said that she does
Been watching the celebrations across the world from new zealand to Sydney Australia to pyongyang, north korea and hong kong. Celebrations were held all across the globe and several more will take place before we ring in the new year on the west coast. Tens of thousands of people will kick off the new year in San Francisco with a Fireworks Show at midnight. In the past, Treasure Island has been a popular spot to see the show. You may have done that yourself but it will not be this year. Tremont Elissa Harrington tells us why. Reporter this is our view of the bay from Treasure Island. If you are trying to find a good point to watch the Fireworks Show tonight, Officials Say to avoid this area altogether. The Treasure Island authority is discouraging people from going to Treasure Island so we are asking folks not to go to Treasure Island to watch the Fireworks Show because there are not a lot of places to park or stand and watch and traffic getting in and out is a nightmare with one westb
Photographs, she recreates Mister Hoovers final trip to his west branch, iowa, childhood home. Todays presentation is called hoovers last trip home. Our speaker, lynn smith, the audiovisual archivist at the hoover president ial library and museum since november of 2000 whose previous Work Experience includes serving as Department Supervisor at the university of denver and archivist for the u. S. Forest service in montana. She is a certified archivist and holds a ba in history from the university of northern colorado, masters in history from Colorado State university and ml i asked from the university of denver. She chaired the society of american archivists in and professional conduct, workshops on ethics in midwest Archives Society of rocky mount archives. In her career she has been president of the society of rocky mount archivists, secretary of the academy of certified archivists and the midwest archives conference so she has collected some great photos and audio files and shared wi