Education and accomplish history professor specializing in early us history hes held the Thomas Jefferson chair in American History at the university for the past five years and before that he taught at the university of california and at boston university. He has written eight previous books on topics ranging from the colonial period to the war of 1812 and beyond two of his works have won a Pulitzer Prize in history in 1996 and William Cooperstown over the politician William Cooper and the novelist james cooper and in 2014 he wrote about slavery in virginia during the war of 1812 and the contradictions of early Virginia Society. Thomas jeffersons education he turned his attention to the establishment of the university of virginia with jefferson of course regarded the university diaz a signature achievement and alan god interested as you see a book on the subject seeing correspondence with the efforts to fund the new school it tend to deal with various ways the American Revolution impa
Coronavirus pandemic. Talks aboutakabas the u. S. Economy and the Record Number of job losses as a result of the virus. Camila dechalus good morning. It is wednesday. Four weeks since the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic. As of today, nearly 13,000 americans have died of the disease, 400,000 americans have been diagnosed, and a 360 Million People in 42 states in the district and in the district of columbia are living under stayathome orders. We are asking how you are dealing with social distancing . Let us know how it has impacted you, your family and job. We have split up the phone lines by age. If you are under 25, 202 7488000. 2650 years. And if you are 5170 years old, the number is 202 7488002. And if you are over 70 years old, 202 7488003. You can catch up with us on social media. Wj on twitter. And regis on facebook. Reach us on facebook. Call now as we show you the map from the New York Times of the states in which residents have been told the stayathom
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Vice president pence and members of the task force. Commentsresidents live here on cspan. A conversation about immigration policy amid coronavirus. Camila dechalus of cq roll call. Good morning to you. We want to start with you on the u. S. Mexico border. What is or is not happening when it comes to border enforcement . The Trump Administration announced it was going to close the northern and southern border to nonessential travel. They invoked a statutory law the gave the government ability to turn away essentially not who does not have permission to go through. The ability to turn away asylumseekers, turn away anyone who tries to enter the u. S. Unlawfully, and also turn away unaccompanied minors who had come to the border to seek protection or reunite with family members. Host what are the numbers telling us right now . Illegalwe know about immigration and border crossings . Have those numbers gone down amid the pandemic . Guest customs and Border Protection told reporters that they