Former, and most recently, Civil War Monuments and the militarization of america which one the book award from the society of civil war historians as best book of the year on the issues of the civil war era. Hes been the editor of several influential volumes, including a particularly still relevant and useful set of edited essays on reconstruction originally issued almost 15 years ago, but still relevant today and a topic we wrestle with today. As well as a number of edited volumes. We are delighted to have him join us today. I will lead him with the first question, if you are ready . You might be muted. Things we aret of going to want to touch on in a relatively brief time today. Monograph,arkable you approach memorials and all kinds of interesting ways that we will want to touch on as works of art, what happens if we context in a national rather than bifurcated into , northern, andrn confederate stories. And what cultural readings we can read from them beyond the meaning of the civil
A 2nd round one donald trump and joe biden prepared to slug it out in the 1st president ial pack. A low that is just gone 5 oclock here in moscow youre watching international hostilities between armenia and azerbaijan have continued into a 3rd day is the worst flare up of an old territorial dispute since a truce was agreed a quarter of a century ago violence exploded between the nations on sunday with both laying claim to the Nagorno Karabakh region. Reports claim there have been airstrikes in the disputed area our correspondent dan of who is currently in the capital of nagornokarabakh said air raid sirens have been sounding across the city locals have also been advised to take shelter gave us the latest instapundit the capital of the disputed nagornokarabakh region this morning began with the sounds of explosions and air raid sirens an unmanned drone was shot down we saw the famed smoke above the mountains which are right behind me the military has told me it was a small drone but siz
A single Border Crossing into the rebel held north u. S. Warns that puts millions of syrians at risk. Polls have closed in poland which has seen a large turnout for his president ial run off the surveys show the ballot may be decided by a very small margin president n. J. Duda who is backed by the ruling right wing party and the government has campaigned on traditional values and social spending as he seeks a 2nd term his opponent mayor has called ski represents the liberal european opposition he has vowed to reverse the erosion of Democratic Institutions under the current government. And i am joined now by a close of bachmann a sociology professor at the university of war so we understand the president do to has 50. 4 percent what else are you hearing about from exit polls. Well im im actually hearing because we have until 9 oclock in the evening we have fishel the election silence which is threatened is very high fees if its violence and so now the ballot stations are closed now the
Your humidity in august but this fear of my friends isnt coming from the thousands of protesters that have descended on the imaginal mall or Lafayette Square or the d. C. Residents navigating both the covert 19 pandemic and the black lives matter protests no no this tidal wave of fear is emanating from the marble halls of the Capitol Building and the old will shape rooms of the white house yes the corridors of power here in washington d. C. Are seeing a nation rise up in one voice and scream enough is enough black lives matter reform and justice are coming and the old ways of oppression and white power are ending how do you know they are as frightened as schoolchildren on report card day well because they are now turning us streets into war zones starting with the Nations Capital as d. C. Is reports the chief of the National Guard bureau confirmed tuesday that an additional 1500. 00 National Guardsmen would join the response to protests in d. C. After 1300. 00 were deployed on monday d
We are at 81 rig now. You can see the northwest winds sustained at 16 miles an hour. So we are seeing some higher gusts. It is going on a nice breezy day out there and again fairly comfortable even though the temperatures are going to be on the hot side. Yes, it is going to be hot with temperatures at 90 degrees. Thats a little above average this time of year. Average is 88. We from the low 90s back to the 80s tomorrow and then start there. It up from in fact, the humidity is along for the ride pretty much the rest of this week. So lets talk about your fourth of july forecast. You know its going to be hot. Do we have any storms . We will show you coming up. All right. Back to the breaking news. Overnight preident trump became the first sitting commander in chief to cross into north korea. Yeah. The president invited the north korean dictator to meet him at the dmz earlier this week on twitter and take a look this is that meeting. The concrete section is the demarcation line separating