Up because some hospitals can no longer admitting patients italy is the country with the highest number of cases outside china. All of it really has been under quarantine for weeks now schools have been closed since the beginning of march but for the students at the German School in rome this doesnt mean they get extended holidays teachers are doing their best to have their students studying from home using smartphones and tablets and the principal at thomas is being very resourceful in order to keep the young ones motivated are italy correspondent visited the school to find out how its all working out. Its a. T. M. On the roads are free almost unheard of at this time of the morning in the italian capital. But nothing is normal in these times of the coronavirus this is the unusual empty parking lot of the German School in rome. Headmaster thomas hart is one of the last people still coming in daily he welcomes me with a new way of greeting if it had come up tomorrow means team is a maxi
Lecture. Im chief historian at the u. S. Capitol historical society. Welcome. Im really pleased today to introduce you if you dont already know jeanne and david heidler. Theyve been speakers here before for their book on George Washingtons circle and today were really honored that were one day in to the official existence of their latest book on Andrew Jackson, the rise of drew jackson was released yesterday. So were at the threshold of greatness here with the book. I hope you all consider buying. Theyll be available afterwards to sign it for anyone interested and i want to point out their previous book was washington circle. Were selling discounted copies back there. Im told that the hard cover that were selling is five cents more than amazons soft cover so that sounds like a winwin. I hope youll have some Great Questions for jeanne and david. This is a hot topic. I assume some of you are familiar faces but some of you might have been drawn specifically because of Andrew Jackson who h
To the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States than that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological change. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closest together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the other side were saying. There is that, there is also just the fact that it is a story of america. It takes place in the same cities we know today. Sometimes even in the same
Effort to fight the coronavirus and no other country has been worse hits than its elite. Doctors and nurses are working in disaster mode Emergency Centers have been set up because some hospitals can no longer admitting check to patients italy is the country with the highest number of cases outside china. All of it really has been under quarantine for weeks now schools have been closed since the beginning of march but for the students at the German School in rome this doesnt mean they get extended holidays teachers are doing their best to have their students studying from home using smartphones and tablets and the principal at thomas high is being very resourceful in order to keep the young ones motivated italy correspondent visited the school to find out how its all working out. Its a. T. M. And the roads are free almost unheard of at this time of the morning in the italian capital. But nothing is normal in these times of the coronavirus this is the unusual empty parking lot of the Ger
Susan steve inskeep, your book is entitled imperfect union how john and Jesse Fremont helped cause the civil war. Why did you believe the story of a 19thcentury power couple would have resonance today . Steve it is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States than that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological change. Cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closest together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people