Sinister and a larger operation than we had ever suspected. That is having very devastating and bad influences upon our economy upon the morale of morals, of our people, and upon politics and government. And thanks for joining us for congress investigates an American History tv series looking back at historic and significant congressional hearings this week. Our focus is organized crime. Well, it was in the early 1950s that democrat senator Estes Kefauver of tennessee and his special committee in interrogated major organized crime figures like Frank Costello. The hearings held over a series of months, had 600 witnesses and went to 14 cities. Many americans learned details about organized crime for the first time in 1951. 12 million us households had tvs and this became a major and Early Television event. The hearings also made Estes Kefauver a household name and helped fuel his political career. Here to talk about the work of the Kefauver Committee is daniel holt, associate u. S. Histo
John fortt on the New York Stock Exchange watch the markets set more record highs dows up 20. All about earnings. Investors awaiting the busiest earnings week of the quarter more than 160 s p 500 companies and 12 dow components are set to report Big Companies like mcdonalds, microsoft, amazon, alpha bet, and more on tap. Lets bring in john from charles schwab, also joining us here post 9, bob pisani were having a debate whether its tax reform or earnings. What say you absolutely the earnings situation with tax reform a cherry on the top. Were going to be down this quarter opposed to double digit in the prior two quarters, but thats because the Insurance Companies are getting hit on the hurricanes, that will change in the next quarter, and the oil profits arent quite as high because oil started turning around Third Quarter last year overall, we are near record high earnings and its the Global Economy expanding thats the most important thing right now expecting hurricane disruptions. On
I am peter karmanos, jr. Director of the civil institute here at gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome nelson. Kate she is a writer, historian, and cultural critic. She has taught at multiple in situations like cal state fullerton, harvard, and most recently at brown university. She is now based in lincoln, massachusetts. She writes regularly for the New York Times union blog, for isvil war times, and she the author of a very important book called ruined nations. She has a piece in weirding the war. She brings a muchneeded cultural perspective to the study of civil war, the marriage between military history and cultural history. It has been a long time coming. I think she is at the very forefront of that scholarship, and you will get to see her thinking unfold in her new blog, which will be released in a few weeks, yes . , and of in a few weeks course what megan is really dedicated to come and if anybody can pull it off, it will be her she is trying to make Civil War History
Good afternoon. I am peter karmanos, jr. Director of the civil institute here at gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome nelson. Kate she is a writer, historian, and cultural critic. She has taught at multiple in situations like cal state fullerton, harvard, and most recently at brown university. She is now based in lincoln, massachusetts. She writes regularly for the New York Times union blog, for isvil war times, and she the author of a very important book called ruined nations. She has a piece in weirding the war. She brings a muchneeded cultural perspective to the study of civil war, the marriage between military history and cultural history. It has been a long time coming. I think she is at the very forefront of that scholarship, and you will get to see her thinking unfold in her new blog, which will be released in a few weeks, yes . , and of in a few weeks course what megan is really dedicated to come and if anybody can pull it off, it will be her she is trying to make C
Sometimes they destroyed their own cities as a defensive strategy. Hampton, virginia, arts of atlanta, and most of richmonds Business District got the torch as the confederates evacuated the cities, retreating before overwhelmingly large union army. The thought was that they would destroy their own war material before the unions inventing armies could get at it. The confederates also burned some towns and cities in the offensive maneuvers. During the 1862 and 1863 campaigns into maryland and pennsylvania, during cavalry raids on Southern Union is towns, and during guerrilla campaigns in the border region. The burning of chambersburg, pennsylvania on july 30, 1864 was one such often active disruption. It is an unusual at the mistress of this warped time practice for several reasons. First, it was a northern town in a northern and not a border state. Second, the conversations about the smoking ruins of chambersburg shifted the discussion of civilized warfare, pitting northern civilians a