Candidate, eugene debs. This is a class at columbia university, of course i called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict and the gilded age, the populist movement, and now we are sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, a lot of labor unrest, Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the four. Municipal reform, many other things, but today our subject is, the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in new early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States, but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particu
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers, jim parsons, host of the amber ruffin show, comedian and writer amber ruffin author yaa gyasi featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening, im seth meyers, and this is late night. How is everybody doing tonight great to hear. Lets get to the news. Last night was the first and only Vice President ial debate between Kamala Harris and i think a dead Airline Pilot during last nights debate, Vice President mike pence frequently tried to interrupt senator Kamala Harris. Said the moderator, mr. Vice president , if it helps, just think of it as carrying her sentence to full term. After last nights debate, second lady karen pence did not wear a mask on stage when she greeted Vice President mike pence huh, usually when a karen refuses to wear a mask, it is at trader joes President Trump released a video yesterday from outside the white house and started out saying, quote, hi, perhaps you recognize me its your fav
Secretary of the United States Steve Mnuchin planning a meeting with nancy pelosi to discuss it which means maybe republicans can go along with this, cobble together something acceptable to both sides but just the talk of that, and some of the stimulus that would give the economy a boost, markets a boost has stocks raising ahead. Hillary vaughn following that, but the postdebate excitement. Both candidates are out on the stump. President trump will be in michigan. Former Vice President in ohio. Busy in a lot of states. Hillary in ohio with more. Reporter hi, neil. Biden has his busiest schedule on the campaign trail weve seen since really the primaries, way before the pandemic. He has seven stops today as he kicks off his train tour. Biden hopped aboard an amtrak train. He will hit seven different cities on one of his favorite modes of transportation the amtrak. It is a nostalgic moment for a man spent decades taking that very train from wilmington to washington. The familiar sound of
Ashley, kick it off with you. Ashley why not, million listsa welcome back, connell. Hopes for a new come from mize stimulus bill and decent Economic Data has to be said helped push major markets higher in the session. We lost some steam in the final hour. What about the final minutes . More money came back in even though we know Congress Continues to wrangle over the relief bill. The dow, s p, nasdaq finishing the day as you can see on the upside. The dow up 328 points. S p up nearly 1 . The nasdaq gaining 3 4 of a percent right at the closing bell. Not bad. By the way we should mention apple, almost, i say almost reclaimed it is two trillion dollar market value gaining more than well, 1 1 2 in the end, about a buck 1 2 short of that landmark level. We should point out apple is up 27 for the Third Quarter. Not too shabby. As for the month of september, a historically weak month we know that for stocks. That kind of proved to be the case with all the Major Exchange losing ground. The do
Will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things. But today our subject is the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. We told him we were in the Suffrage Movement and the various times of socialism at that time. From 1860 at least onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States, but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particularly germans, english. The emergence of a mass social movement with a real base in the american political system followed and defeat of the populist party in the 1890s. The inheritors of 19th century radicalism were forced to kind of think about new ways confronting the problems and the inequities of the rapidly changing Industrial Society of that time. Socialism was typically untheoretical. Unlike european or ot