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2020 election and the qs of the u. S. Electoral process. We are about the legal challenges brought forward by the Trump Campaign and how the American People perceive the integrity of the results. The center for American Progress is the host, this is about an hour. Subject this year we saw significant strength in our electoral system. Ultimately our system deck demonstrated democracies resilience we saw a higher share of the voting eligible population than any time in the last 120 years. That is a great site of the vibrancy of democracy but at the heavy load for a lecture to biggest ration vertically during the pandemic the conditions around covered for states to adopt quickly to a once in a century pandemic that meant shifting to mailin ballots recruiting new and younger poll workers and confronting prohibition in some states against counting mail ballots prior to election day. Sadly we also saw the effects of disinformation shared by politicians. And amplified over digital platforms a
Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
Is the security of america at risk . And covid continues to peek across the country, once again shutting new york city Public Schools down. With vaccines on the way but still not quite ready, we speak to 23andme ceo Anne Wojcicki. Could their research on genes and covid give us more clues on how to fight it faster . Dropping asstocks fresh resections put in place to limit the spread of covid19 overshadowed positive news. About vaccine develop at Abigail Doolittle has more. Generally the markets were quieter today, but then it fell off late in the day. Abigail truly a sleeper for much of the day. Cyclical rotation trying to take over. As new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. Earlier today, two negative headlines. Of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3 seven day rolling Positivity Rate here in new york city, at least according to the mayors office. Looks like the governor may have ha
A bit on may 19th a professor of law and taxation at the university of virginia law school, and a former chief of staff of the joint committee on ten sanction will speak about his research and that committees records and history of the joint committee. And on may 26, we host another professor of Political Science science he will discuss her research on a book manuscript about the politics of National Identification documents in the United States, in the 20th century. An Important Mission of the center is promoting Scholar Research in the records of the senate, the house of representatives, and advancing the stony of the history of congress. This researcher top series helps us gauge fully that mission is being met, and we do so by regularly hosting scholars who have conducted research in the house of the senate record, or who have written significant books in the history of congress. And todays a much anticipated talk, we hear about one of those very significant looks on the history of