Giving. This is nbc nightly news with kate snow. Good evening with the avalanche of hollywood travel just beginning, and so Many Americans headed to airports this week, a massive power outage at the worlds busiest hub is having a big impact tonight. The power went out at Heartsfield Jackson International airport at atlanta. Thats a live picture from outside the departures area. It left thousands of passengers trapped on planes and inside the darkened terminal. Authorities were quick to say it was not criminal or an act of terror, but more than 800 flights now into and out of atlanta have been cancelled. More than 500 delayed. We begin with nbcs morgan radford. Reporter today, a full ground stop at atlantas Hartsfield Jackson airport left 100 aircraft parked on the runway. I personally thought it was a really big i dont know, terrorist attack or something crazy because the power was out and phones stopped working. And that was quite frightening. Reporter as flights were diverted to othe
She went to her boss for change. This was so fake. Can you tell . We cannot give it back to him. Who is going to order thai tea and paying with hundred dollar bill. There is an attempt to make the thread go through the bill. That bill in the Evidence Room is a rather clumsy counterfeit. This one was just a photocopy of a 20 bill. Another one was a 100 bill bleached and printed over. The fakes have shown up in a gas station minimart and at outlet malls. Four Different Stores they rejected them though. We have black lights and also you can hold up to the light and you can see watermarks etc. Etc. Sometimes they look so bad. People in actually give them to us and i am like what are you doing. Somebody actually walked out of a trader joes and followed the counterfeiter and saw him. It will happen for over the weekend or a few days and then it just stops. It is probably a crew coming in from out of the area trying to pass a bunch of bills and then they go somewhere else. The vehicle is a gr
Violent labor strikes were actually an attempt by workers to bring democracy into the workplace by overturning topdown management. He also describes how radical movements in art and literature clashed with the dominant cultural norms of the time. This class is just under an hour. I want to look at the debate in the early 20th century over what is called modernism. How these things work into some of the anxieties we have been talking about really all semester about the rise of modern america and spilling over into the postwar years. Lets look at some quotes from people we have heard from before in the semester to reestablish what the if those was. Walter lippman 1914. He says we can no longer treat life as something that will trickle down to us. We have to deal with it deliberately, devise its social organization formulate its methods, educate and control it. A classic progressive era approach. Chain atoms. Our friend jane adams. She writes, life in the suburbs above all it has been cal
Republicans and 50 new democrats in the house, there is also 108 women in congress, including the first africanamerican republican in the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of the members of the senate using congressional chronicle on www. Cspan. Org. New congress, best access on cspan, cspan2, cspan radio and www. Cspan. Org. Each week American History tvs reel america brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. February 19, 1942, president roosevelt issued executive order 9066, leading to a forced relocation and internment of over 100,000 people of japanese ancestry who lived on the west coast of the u. S. 62 of the internees were american citizens. A challenge to democracy from 1944 is a 20 minute War Relocation Authority film which attempts to justify the policy by showing the internment process and Living Conditions in the camps, sometimes admitting that there were problems, but are frequently glossing over the many negative asp
Understanding of history and its impact on the world today. To develop an Educational Initiative for young people, students, and adults. She recently led the historical campaign, which raised more than 100 million. Under her directions the New York Historical society has lost groundbreaking exhibitions. In recent years she has been honored with the woman of distinction metal, the deans metal in 2005, education and student advocacy award. And many many other awards we do not have time to read today because we want to hear what she has to say. She also has done research that focus on the creation of the historical narrative. Without further a do, louise mirrer. Thank you for organizing this panel. As some of you may be aware of the New York Historical society has been developing a brandnew center for the study of womens history. So i am very interested today to learn about the work of my fellow panelist and also to hear the views of those of you in the audience. At the New York Historica