Preserve such places for current and future generations. This discussion was part of the association for the study of africanamerican life and history annual meeting. Hello, and welcome. Hello and welcome to the association for the study of africanamerican life and historys 104th annual conference. We have of people moving, how the National Park service and preservation is how the story of black migration. My name is madeline, and the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks conservation association. Louder . Is that better . Sorry about that. Im so proud to be with you this afternoon. On behalf of teresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks conservation association, we have been a powerful independent voice working to strengthen and protect americas National Parks for 100 years. Through a nationwide network of offices, and with more than 1. 3 million members and supporters, npca s
Just above estimates we begin with wall streets record run futures pointed to a muted open. The dow coming off a fivesession win streak. Plus broken Business Model . Elizabeth warren promising to follow the money when she questions former equifax ceo rick smith in a hearing this morn and pepsi shares are sinking. The beverage and snack giant beats earning but has a lower outlook. The dow, the s p and the russell coming off record highs. The Financial Sector posted its highest in ten years with watches on to see how resilient the market can be. I think what were seeing is a recognition that the economy is better so instead of paying low multiples for, what . Nothing, sorry, go ahead. My pepsi notes. Instead of paying low multiples for companies lets start with the banks. We are going to give the banks a multiple that looks like a stock. Do you know how long its been since i used to speak with brian moynihan, he does a great job and i would say okay lets say you can make two bucks, what
Somebody who insults women, marks the disabled, marks pows, just wanted to get an education. Watch afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on cspan2s booktv. South dakota, along the banks of the missouri river, chosen as south dakotas capital city in 1889. Reflecting the american frontier is home to cowboys and cattle, the backdrop for iconic American Writer laura ingles little house on the prairie series. With help of our Cable Partners for the next hour we feature the Literary Community beginning with nancy koppel on the Important Role south dakota plays in american history. We are in the research and Publishing Office of the daily Historical Society and also the headquarters of the south dakota Historical Society press. Back in the day in 1997, i felt it was a niche we could fill in south dakota. Nobody was doing our history seriously. I shouldnt say nobody, that is not fair. There was a concerted effort to do publishing for the state of south dakota, to do it right, you have to hav
Left to right, hero intervals. [military commands] we are actually standing on the parapet or the crest of fort anderson, which was the largest confederate fort in the lowercase fear in the interior lower cape fear in the interior. It had western land approaches and river approaches to the seaport of wilmington. They got good intelligent that the attack on wilmington was coming october 1864. They knew that the attack was planned against fort fisher, and so for andersons garrison was largely depleted to send reinforcements to fort fisher. You might have had a company or two of troops here. There would be two attacks on fort fisher. 1864. S in two and a half weeks later, they returned with a slightly scaleddown Naval Task Force, more soldiers, and this time they were determined to capture the fort. Bombardment,s of the second of the civil war, union forces attacked late in the afternoon january 15, and overwhelmed the confederate defenders. ,utgunned, outmanned, exhausted they put up a g
Figure out what the big pattern is, because of what happened in our lives, it is so chaotic and quick, we cannot figure out the overall trajectory. Things we are looking at is the effect of the environment on us, whether it is all of the things that nature hurls at us, whether it is a hurricane, tornado, famine, or Something Like ebola. We also looked at things like mechanical things or technological inventions, those are also big patterns. For example, the ways in which farming, farming does not seem like technology, but the ways farming and the plow replaced hunting and gathering. That replacement led from the neolithic into the paleolithic wow, what is bigger than that . And other technologies that have really affected our lives, such as the invention of the spinning wheel, steam engines, what do they do . They led to the replacement of manual labor with machine labor. As you know, that gave us the industrial revolution. Those are giant patterns. Those are patterns that are easier t