Arrive coming up. Erin. Problems on the roads and the rails. A crawl on the outer loop by New Hampshire boulevard New Hampshire avenue because of the stall by university boulevard. Blue line delays by king street. Well help steer you clear of the rail and road slowdowns with your next look at traffic. Erin thanks. More details on both coming. First lets talk politics. President trump on the verge of a legislative victory this morning but democrats say they won too. Congress close to passing a bipartisa agreement to avoid a Government Shutdown but there is a price for compromise. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live on capitol hill with more now. Good morning. Reporter well, steve and allison the price tag a trillion dollars with money in this spending compromise for many of the various priorities of the president and lawmakers and not very many cuts. Washington may be able to keep the Government Shutdown signs under wraps for a few months now with congress on the verge of inking a deal to kee
And so, he created a library on the grounds of his here in hyde park, new york. What he decided to do was raise private money to build the library and then he gave it to the government to be operated by the national archive. That model was followed by subsequent president s. This is the first of the president ial libraries that was created and operated by the national archives. About 10 years ago, the library embarked on an ambitious plan to look at the entire museum and really bring it up to date. The new galleries opened in 2013 and basically everything you see at the museum now dates from that 2013 reopening. It is all brandnew. A fresh look at the lives of franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and of the roosevelt presidency. The exhibition began in 1932, the year he was elected president of the u. S. World. The country was in the third year of the great depression. In 1929, the depression began and unemployment in the u. S. Was at 3. 2 . At the time he was running for president in 1932,
On trial. A book she discusses managed titled records of the salem witchhunt. 12 individuals worked to complete the book. This presentation is part of an all day Salem State University presentation. Host welcome back. I am thrilled to see you all here for what should be a really interesting session. I would like to introduce to you my good friend and partner in witchcraft studies, margo burns. Margo was one of the leading experts on the trials. One of the editors in the records of the salem witchhunt. In some degree, she probably has forgotten more about the individual documents than i will ever know. We asked her to speak about those records and the Amazing Things you can learn from a close read of them. I should also mention that she is the author of my favorite articles on the salem witch trials. It looks at the issue of false confession that i strongly recommend to you. Margo burns. [applause] thank you. Just so you know, i have a completely different read on the coercion of false
And native americans. She also describes the difficulties faced by women running for political office. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this one hour, 45 minute program. Our speaker tonight is robin chairnsey, the interim and a professor womens history. You heard her speak about one the ago in the context of belmont house. At the time, she said she was doing research on what happened after women got the vote. I thought that was a really interesting program, and it is clear from your response that you will do as well. So please give a warm welcome to robin munsey. Thank you. Robin munsey thank you so much, rebecca, for that introduction, and for the imitation to come back. Is always so nice to be invited back. It is like it did not go too badly. And thank you to everyone at the Smithsonian Associates who have made this possible, taking care of all the publicity and logistics. Let me make sure i have this all right. The 19th amendment, the woman suffrage amendment to the u. S. Constitut
Here is the recent program. Every year millions of people visit northbridge and minuteman historical park. Many of them visit the robin house. Many people were unaware slavery existed in the north. Many people believe slavery was entirely a Southern Institution and that the racial problems that stem from an existed only in the american south. The Robbins House reminds people that those problems and issues not only were endemic in the north but also that they continue all the way through the present day. The Robbins House was a Historic House built sometime in the 1820s that was originally owned by the children of caesar robbins, a former enslaved man from the area. He is believed to of been born around 1785, possibly in chelmsford. We actually do not know a lot of fact about his life, so we have to examine the lives of other slave men and women from the same era and drug details draw details from their experiences. We do not know if he was born into a life of slavery. Its possible but