Colleague, michael holt. Michael holt is the professor of American History here at the university of virginia. He was educated at princeton and learned his ph. D. At Johns Hopkins university. With time offer visiting professional ships at cambridge, yale, stanford and other institutions. He has been at the university of virginia since 1974. He has written widely and deeply about 19 century political history. For many years his writing focus on the years before the civil war. Both the political crisis of the 19 fifties has become the standard for advanced college courses. His 1999 book, the rise involve the american w. H. I. P. Party, draconian politics in the onset of the civil war, was the runner up for the lincoln prize, his most often described as magisterial. And that is not just because of his 1296 heft. More recently, he has written of the reconstruction period following the war. By one vote the disputed election of 1876, it tells the story of americas closest election which perh
Product and auto designers who create massproduced consumer goods that filled the suburbs of america. Narrator this is levittown, pennsylvania, a new suburb and community of 60,000 people midway between philadelphia and trenton, new jersey. With its giant Shopping Center, winding names winding lamed named for flowers entries, it is typical of communities all over america, where families are pursuing the American Dream to give their children a better chance in life. Are people of modest means. Nearly all our young people. A large proportion our veterans. And while many religious groups have established churches, they have not yet had time enough to develop programs to adequately serve the community. Most levittowners are proud and happy in their new environment. For many, it is the first house of their own ad represents a major financial investment. Social life is mainly confined to visits from the neighbors. There are communitywide events, but it is too early yet for most residents to
Written about as madison avenue. Just in much in need of reflection just as much in need of reflection. Like madison avenue life in the suburbs has its good moments and others not so good. No. H discouraged, disgruntled . Heck no. They are glad to be here. Remember . And so they joined the stream of family life in the suburbs, soon to become part of this familiar site. Soon to absorb the familiar sounds. Anybody home . [laughter] [whistling] [humming] [laughter] this is what redbook means by young adults, people in a certain living situation with particular interests and goals. These young adults begin to discover redbook around the time they apply for their merge license, start life in their own homes, have their first baby, take out their first loan. They stay with redbook through their busiest years. As redbook seasons their life, a carefree life, even though suddenly plunged into family life. Theye babies start coming, start to concentrate on houses with the woman staying home to l
With that light wind overnight, look at the temperatures, dropping into the low 30s in the north bay, 31 in santa rosa, 32 in novato, 33 in livermore with freezing conditions in the san ramon valley. 39 in oakland, cold for oakland, anywhere from two to seven degrees colder this morning, along the shoreline and your forecast calls for plenty of sunshine, upper 50s by noontime. By the afternoon weve got low 60s around the bay and looking at another clear and cold night tonight. Temperatures are going to stay on the mild side. Well tell you how mild and talk about the rest of the weekend, the week ahead, coming up. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Today is Small Business saturday as we mentioned, but no matter the turnout, some berkeley shops are getting some extra help. The city of berkeley raised millions of dollars for a relief fund. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena spoke to the mayor of berkeley who says there are still more ways for the community to now chip in. Reporter may 2020 marked ten years
And chilly up in the north bay subfreezing for Napa Santa Rosa also 46 even for San Francisco in 35 for freeman inland. In the east bay temperatures in the middle to lower 30s. So for comparison. Yeah, were a little cooler this morning dry air calm winds clear skies. They we look for all those things for cold nights and it looks like for the day ahead, like this mostly sunny and temperatures bumped up a little bit of course as we get the daytime heating like this. It will be modest highs, 55 looks like by 11 and by 2 were looking at 60 well take a closer inspection or forecast in just a bit marty all right dave thanks a lot, lets get to the news breaking overnight police are still investigating a deadly shooting. At a sacramento mall it happened on black friday officers first got the reports of a shooting around 06 00pm last night at the Arden Fair Mall in sacramento. 2 people were shot and died at the mall, another at the hospital an hour later the victims were just 1719 years old the