Emergence of war series, called hellmira the unions most infamous pow camp of the civil war. From elmira, new york, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, derek maxfield. Thank you very much. I very please to be here and talk about my latest project. And prisoner over cams in general have been quite a surprise to me. Prisoner of war camps and general have been quite a surprise to me. I have studied the civil war since i was quite young and new the length of the tragedy during the civil war. But it was eyeopening to me the extent of the home and italian crisis that unfolded over the course of those for bloody years. The extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those luddy years. Those bloody years. In total. Carcerated and, although we understand that this is a small number of casualties considering the total number of casualties during the civil war, over 750,0 when wee believe, consider that we could have done both better. That this was in our power to make li
50 s to 60 s as they ve been tell you the past few days. enjoy these cool morning hours. long dog walk jog, all things to do beforeywe heat up this afternoon and then avoid too much exposure and especially too much review, rigorous strenuous activity outside later on. as that will dehydrate. you really quickly in this heat, solano county. again, one of her windiest spots and that pairing of 90 s to triple digits, dry conditions and winds is resulting in red flag warnings. critical fire danger yet again today. hot afternoon. temperatures range from the 70 s at the coast, 80 s by the bay to those upper 90 s. even a couple triple digits inland. your full breakdown is still to come. rain or john. thank you for that. he will thankfully no hot spots along the bay bridge this morning. it will be about 10 minutes to make it from the maze to that fremont street exit. the san mateo bridge, as you re traveling from a 80 to one o one. you re looking at a 13 minute drive. a lot of richm
right, ken, and just seen for the second time in a week now we are having to keep an eye on red flag conditions. it s only may. the national weather service says that red flag conditions should be persisting at least right now. they think through wednesday morning. and this is across much of north central california, including most of solano county. but we are seeing fire activity in several bay area locations. it s been a busy afternoon into tonight and in napa county. what we re talking about, what s being called the pope fire is burning near silverado trail zinfandel lane and pope street. and so far this fire has burned 5 acres. so not huge. it is 50% contained. but all of the roads we mentioned are close. this isn t far from napa valley college where they have the lena farmers market. if you re familiar with that area along this silverado trail. there. caltrans tweeted about road closures as well as evacuation orders in effect and another fire. then we ve been keeping a
Where the biggest radio industry in the world was created, up to broadway. Thats where the entertainment is. Thats where bing crosby is. Thats where jack benny is. His lifelong rival, and they were truly lifelong rivals, tsarnaev with bill paley. Paley is the son of very rich cigar making family. The family started in the ukraine. By the time they moved from chicago to philadelphia, they had made it. He went to wharton school. His dad basically bought him the station. He hated him for that. And he dated nonjewish girls. These two guys would battle for supremacy in radio, television, and then Color Television for the next half century. Its paley who links it permanently to advertising. The only business in the country supported entirely by advertising. Somebody wrote him a letter and said im getting this great entertainment, great music, who do i pay. Nobody. Paid for by advertising. And paley then hooks up with Duke Ellington. In 1928, he signs up washington, d. C. s Duke Ellington who
Talk im not good at power point. Well, this is not the supreme city. Its not the book i originally set out to write. And the original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. But without trying to be too cute, i took too big of a bite out of the apple. And i discovered doing my Research Within the larger story i had intended to tell. Its an unfold story, actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. And that story is the rise of the sudden and spectacular rise of midtown manhattan in the 1920s. Which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a single skyscraper above 42nd street. And by the end of the decade, by the end of the 1920s, almost half of new york skyscrapers were in midtown. Its one of the great building booms not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of the world. This eruption, almost, that occurs in these years. And