Constitution. You can hear more from robert byrd who served in the u. S. Senate for more than 50 years, this sunday at 5 00 eastern youre on American History tv on cspan3. At the annual Southern Historical association meeting, a group of professors discussed challenges and strategy for teaching the reconstruction era. They talk about sources and trying to find a balance between National History and local history in survey courses. [laughter] aaron good morning. My name is aaron dean, and i would like to welcome everybody to our panel this morning on teaching reconstruction. We are happy to have cspan here, which is not normally part of these panels. We will get going right on time. I will also explain first we will use this morning and then get out of the way. I will offer just a couple of to kind ofy remarks set things up, and then introduce our panelists, and then they will each talk for a short bit, we are hoping within the fiveminute range and i did not bring a cudgel, but every on
20 books. I have a long list here. One of my favorite books is girls. Is earls. Is one of the first books to explore soldier motivation and ideology. It is an outstanding book. He has done any others that charge, ackets book on field fortifications. A lot of people dont love braxton bragg. Im not sure you will love him after you read earls book, but it is a fair and well researched , deeply analytical look. He has won a number of awards. I should note, this book fighting for atlanta, is published by the university of North Carolina press. Let me welcome earl hess. [applause] pete, veryhank you, much. Fighting for atlanta, tactics, is the and the civil war topic. The purpose is to understand one of the more important elements that influence the course of operations in the Atlantic Campaign. It is a followup to a trilogy that i did several years ago on field fortifications in the eastern campaigns. That was volume two of that trilogy coverage. Atlanta campaign was one of four that heavil
Im nejra cehic in london. Were checking a third day of declines for european equities. The the stoxx 600 down. 7 . The bloomberg dollar index on track for its first weekly loss in a month. The dollar weaker against yen. The b. O. J. Pushing for more stimulus. Well talk about that more throughout the show and the new Zealand Dollar best performer in this session on the announcement of a new central bank governor. Perhaps that might not hold up with some of the data were going to get next week but thats how were looking in todays session. Coming up today on surveillance, we talk surveillance and get a take on markets later on in the morning. First lets get the first word news. Greenbrussels, giving the light for brexit talks to move on to the next stage. They have complied with their conditions over a future trade deal. Diplomats warned the discussions will be more difficult than the First Six Months of talks. In japan, calling for more stimulus, prompted the b. O. J. To adjust its commu
The european markets were down a couple minutes ago. They are pretty much back up. It seems the feel good factor in u. S. Stocks have now petered out somewhat. Im looking at u. S. 10 year treasury yields, pretty much a picture of stability. The dollar off the trade bound. The dollar, gaining a touch. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, we sit down with luca paolini, the chief strategist at Pictet Asset Management. Thewe will also break down saudi budget with the director of Economic Research at the Gulf Research center. First, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian uber has lost the battle as it differs from traditional taxes. The car hailing app should be regulated. The eu court of justice ruling, think of the president sentting. British officials fear spain will threaten to veto, if negotiatey fails to with madrid. It has been in british hands since, 1713 but spain could make a claim over the land. To the u. N. Assador nikki haley is pressing other countries n
We have quite a lot going on in the markets. We are getting breaking news out of china. Reserves are little bit above estimates, but in mind what what we were expecting. But in line with what we were expecting. Onto your markets. The turkish lira. A Senior Member of the Catalan Party calls for dialogue with spain. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Heres sebastian salek. Sebastian a senior republican senator has said Donald Trumps reckless threats towards other countries could set the nation on the path to world war iii. President treats it often like a reality show. His support will be critical to the president on tax reform. After a massive rally in barcelona over the weekend, a the catalanr of Administration Calls for dialogue with madrid. The catalan president vowed to press ahead with his independence strike. Angela merkel has a great to an annual cap for migrants into her country. It is the first policy fallout on the recent election. She had previously resisted