Im anne marie green. Of course we are going to start this morning on the campaign trail with just eight days left. The coronavirus remains the biggest issue. Over the weekend, over 228,000 cases were reported in the u. S. According to Johns Hopkins university. Records were set on friday and saturday with 83,000 each day. Five aids to Vice President mike pence tested positive for the virus including his chief of staff and political advisor. Pence, who has tested negative, plans to campaign for President Trump this week. Nancy, how are the candidates spending these final days on the trail . Good morning. President trump will head to pennsylvania and joe biden will stay in delaware before traveling to georgia as we enter the final full week until election day. With with a week and a day to go, neither side is taking anything for granted. It is not over until the bell rings. We feel good about where we are. I dont understand how he plays. President trump spent the weekend in battleground s
At the vatican, a historic selection. They were pioneers. We got used early on, to dealing in a mans world. There were forks in the road. Later, its 2020, so you know it will be a very scary halloween this year no kidding. Trick or treat this is the cbs overnight news. Good evening. Nine days to go until the election. And the coronavirus is once again spreading inside the trump administration. At least five aides to Vice President pence now testing positive. Cbs news battleground polls out today show a tight races in three Southern States with joe biden having the edge over the president had in florida. Biden is up four points in North Carolina and the contest is even in georgia. Tonight the president handed out candy to children of front line workers and Health Care Workers after campaigning in military and new hampshire. Paula reed starts us off. Reporter as the county topped 80,000 new cases in a day. The president told the people that the virus is fading out. We are rounding the tu
Zoom schedule appears on our website at harvard. Com. I will be contacting a link to support event night tonight possible of the independent bookstore thank you for tuning in we support your support now and always. Thank you for your patience and understanding so now im so pleased to introduce tonight speakers professor jones that the president ial professor at Johns Hopkins university and the organization of american historians for legal history and those scholarships with columbia universitys center for critical analysis. As well as pbs and netflix and others and also the coeditor of the africanamerican culture and the birthright citizen but tonight professor jones of the correspondent for the New York Times Pulitzer Prize vanguard. It was that expensive history of black women and National Book awardwinning author the political historian and this is the commanding history of the struggle of africanamerican women for political power is a without further ado we will go to our guest. Th
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The 2017 annual meeting of the organization of american historians. Our session is called historians in court. It examines the complex roles of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks first for organizing this session and, in particular, to the president for her support of our endeavor here today. Today, we will address a timely topic the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. Theres no systematic study, but the evidence we have indicates that the use of, for instance, scholarly amicus briefs, where scholars file amicus briefs in court proceedings, has been increasing. Theres a long history of scholarly input into Appellate Court cases stretching back at least to the famous brandeis brief in the Supreme Court case in 1908. But for our purposes, our pedigree as historians might be traced back to the brown versus board of education litigation in which the distinguished helped the naacp make the case against School Segregation. More recent