Im alice baumgartner. Im an assistant professor of history at the university of southern california. And this is my first inperson conference in since the pandemic and after two years where giving a conference paper was basically sitting alone in my apartment justiculating at my laptop. Its really wonderful to i guess be able to justiculate in person to you guys today. So just wanted to give a big thank you to the organization of american historians for putting together this conference and for accommodating all of the different varieties in which people chose to participate even though i know that came at some great logistical challenges. I also want to think Raylan Barnes who unfortunately cant be here today. But who is really the one responsible for bringing us all together today . She originally conceived of the round table as one that would be focused on the civil war in the west. But ultimately last year around february decided to focus it on 1862. This is the year when the Republ
Im an assistant professor of history at the university of Southern California and this is my first in person Conference Since the pandemic and after two years where giving a conference paper was basically sitting alone in my apartment, its wonderful to be able to talk with you today. So just wanted to get a big thank you to the organization for putting together this conference and for accommodating the varieties of which people chose to participate even though i know that came at some great logistical challenges. I also want to thank who cant be here today but is the one responsible for bringing us all together today. As she originally conceived of the roundtable as one that would be focused on the civil war and the west but ultimately last yearry around february decided o focus it on 1862. This is the year when the Republican Party succeeded into some of its original Campaign Promises abolished in the district of columbia and the western territories as well as passing the homestead ac
The economys seen long term we look back obviously the one nine hundred thirty s. The one nine hundred early part of the sixtys the eightys the ninetys its very difficult to tell now if the president has a real impact unless hes a true visionary with a real plan you spent a lot of time. Studying president nixon did he have an Economic Policy that was. Approved by congress. They basically in it one of the three key things to talk about nixon is and everybody brings of watergate we make these associations with present there is that there is that the plan the nixon had people often say have watergate not occurred and had the book had the boom of the one nine hundred eighty s. Taken place in the seventys maybe nixon would have been perceived differently by history. Nixons often given bad marks because of the over regulation of control with price controls and that sort of thing so he had to deal with quite a few other issues in addition the economy in addition watergate the middle east what
Named after him is celebrated on the third one day of february but the day is also known as president today and honors all other president s including president Abraham Lincoln one whose birthday is just past february twelfth well talk some more about president today with president ial historian from Boston University professor walter month tunnels and while u. S. Markets are closed nationally banks looks like Global Markets plus we look at the japanese Steel Industries response to the u. S. Commerce Department Proposal to impose curbs on steel imports into the United States all of that coming up but first lets get to some headlines. As the olympics continue in south korea south korean president moon j. N. Said on monday that the General Motors Company Decision to shutter a plant south of seoul in the city of gun sin would be a big bust for the nation and as asked as admit. Astray ssion to take measures to increase Economic Activity in the region the plan is applied as employed two tho
Recall that innocent civilians are trapped in the in the middle as your report just showed so we should first remind that but i think that this situation now is precarious because the Syrian Government forces will have to move to our three and there is no other choice aphelion is part of syria so therefore if they let the african down and they do not actually interfere that shows that they. Lenient with their vision of the territory and that is not the position of the Syrian Government in fact this turkish escalation brings the city as together it creates more unity among the city and it makes them realize that in the end they will have to be under the authority of the government the legitimate government in syria and that is the legitimate force equating to International Law that is supposed to control all syrian territory including after now the the turkish incursion into africa and under the pretext the alleged pretext of eliminating terrorism is there you know this alleged pretext