Why did we choose this topic, i dont know. Did you . Fall, chris took my civil war class out to Little Round Top and did an incredible job, not just telling us about what happened at Little Round Top, but he also did a really insightful job of helping my students understand the construction of historical narratives and focusing on chamberlain. A different way for my students to understand. Before chris gets going, i want to do a quick plug. Chris is a Gettysburg College alum. 2006. Raduated in i while at gettysburg is when believe you began to do some volunteer work for the park. My first year at the college, i worked at the institute. Internship at an the park working with john and scott. It was my First National park experience and i fell in love with it. I have been fortunate enough to make a career out of it. It has been a wonderful journey. I wish i was a student now. The program does Amazing Things across parks. So many things. I wish i had at my disposal when i was a student. I
One of the things compounding the humanitarian disaster. Here youve got a book, is this year ruggedness of the month with us. Refugees return home to new corner carabao, because russian peacekeepers secure the only routes linking the region to armenia. Antti takes the trip down, tests its safety. On the un warns of a humanitarian catastrophe in ethiopia as tens of thousands flee, brutal fighting in the north. I was severely beaten and tortured. But if i were detained for 3 days, old son, pregnant women are being sheltered, thrown into the streets, and bitter was a very good morning to you, which 10 am here in moscow. And youre watching Aussie International with aaron one death due to covert it every minute the us is setting ever more pulling right chords with a new 6 month peak of corona virus victims reached this week. That makes even tough. I look down restrictions increasingly likely. New york city is closing all Public Schools from thursday. More than a 1000000 students will move t
President hang out the banner, well take ike to washington. Where were going, travel day and night well all go with ike. You like ike, i like ike everybody likes ike well hang out the banner well take ike to washington now is the time for all good americans to come to the aid of their country. Ike. So glad bob. N, bob ike. E. Bob. Im so glad were friends again, bob. Yes, ike. we agree on everything. Lets never separate again, bob. Never again, ike. Bob. Ike. Bob. Ike. Will ike and bob really live happily ever after . Is the white house big enough for both of them . Stay tuned for a musical interlude. Ruben, reuben, ive been thinking bob and ike now think alike with the general in the white house amorders, bob. Eofof the or ike . Ill vote for adlai and johne were pleased to be joined by professor of Mass Communications and author of daisy petals and mushroom jo clouds. A look at tv political advertising. Professor mann, thank you for joining us here. Thank you. Good to be with you this
Calculation, 272 electoral votes ford, so far for gerald the opponent. Election 1976, day of decision. This is Richard Scanlon of washington. Studios isay in our Howard Penniman of georgetown theersity, stephen hess of brookings institution. Tuesdaysscuss bicentennial election here in the United States. Not every last vote has even been counted now and so the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and popular votes for mr. Kaiser and for president ford. Carter and for president four. As you know and all of our elections in the long history of actual winnerthe is determined not by the millions of people who voted for carter or for ford but rather by the 51 elections held in the states and district of columbia. Each state has assigned to it a number of Electoral College votes equal to its congressmen and senators combined. The last of us alaska as three, minnesota as 10. The big states even more. The combination of these electoral votes to a majority of 270 is w
Athough originally it was county courthouse of philadelphia. But in the years that washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives , each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. Around 3. 75ulation million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our