Good evening everyone and welcome to the special election coverage. All eyes are on the president ial race, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden made one final push for votes today wrapping up what has been an incredibly contentious battle for the white house. Polls are just closing moments ago in iowa, montana, nevada, and utah. Here is a look at that map. This is from fox and it is updating at all times. Estates in blue have gone to joe biden, biden has one colorado, illinois, virginia, maryland, the district of columbia, delaware, new jersey, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, new york, vermont, and a portion of maine, for a total of 129 electoral votes. President trump has one wyoming, north and south dakota, part of nebraska, kansas, missouri, oklahoma, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, alabama, tennessee, kentucky, indiana, and west virginia, and also just lay there, South Carolina for a total of 109 Electoral College votes. 270 is the magic number needed to win f
The virginia plan for example, the compromise presented at the Constitutional Convention thought the balance of large and small states and bicameral legislature. Another critical compromise is the agreement to tolerate slavery even though it would be prohibited in 1808. Without the compromise the Southern States would never have agreed to ratify the constitution and there would have been you know no United States of america. A great wrong was embedded in our find a shuttle document and the seeds of civil war were stone. The founders, even many of the slaveholders among them acknowledged slavery was an abomination antithetical to the declaration of independence many of them signed. Most hoped it would disappear for economic reasons, but for 80 years americans would live with the start contradictions between the existence of slavery within its borders and the first principle of the declaration that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Th
School safety against targeted violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I actually want to thankour witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and your families and the other families of the families for attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that can prevent tragedies for other families, its remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which date back to about 1998 is where we had the first directed attack, numbers of 56. I know in your testimony youre talkingabout 710 shootings since columbine in 1999. Columbine, 13 people were killed, 12 students, one teacher, 21injured, sandy hook in 2012, 26 killed. Two were injured and parkland, at Marjorie Stoneman douglas school, 17 killed and 17 injured. Anthe death and casualty toll is simply unbelievable, quite honestly. I grew up in the
Family in revolution mary america. And that was recently published, the university of virginia press. Cynthia kerner is a of history at george mason university. She earned her ph. D. From university of virginia and specializes the fields of early america women, gender and early southern history. She is the author or editor of eight books and numerous. In addition to being the organizations own of american historians, distinguished lecturer and the past president of Southern Association for women history science. Throughout her distinguished career, dr. Kirchners research has been supported by the american historical association, the virginia historical, the library company, philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society and the National Endowment for the humanities. But before i turn things over to dr. Kerner, the usual housekeeping items are in order for our friends tuning in with us virtually on zoom this evening. Following tonights authors talk, there will be a question and answer s
Family in revolution mary america. And that was recently published, the university of virginia press. Cynthia kerner is a of history at george mason university. She earned her ph. D. From university of virginia and specializes the fields of early america women, gender and early southern history. She is the author or editor of eight books and numerous. In addition to being the organizations own of american historians, distinguished lecturer and the past president of Southern Association for women history science. Throughout her distinguished career, dr. Kirchners research has been supported by the american historical association, the virginia historical, the library company, philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society and the National Endowment for the humanities. But before i turn things over to dr. Kerner, the usual housekeeping items are in order for our friends tuning in with us virtually on zoom this evening. Following tonights authors talk, there will be a question and answer s