Mountain and pacific, thats 202 7488001. We welcome your comments by text. Thats 202 7488003. Nd on twitter we are cspanwj your Facebook Comments are welcome, journal cspan. Org facebook. Com cspan. Members of congress, as we know, saying that the house will be back until may 4. Our capitol hill producer theted yesterday about white house plans, a 10 00 a. M. Conversation with the members of the house. At 11 00 a. M. , president hosting a phone call with members of the senate. Cnbc posting yesterday about the president s briefing and his indication that the u. S. Has passed the pico coronavirus outbreak. Peak of coronavirus outbreak. Host the report says that President Trump says the u. S. Has passed the peak of the infected asich has we mentioned more than 632,000 people in america. We will update those numbers for you momentarily. Heres what the president said yesterday in his briefing. [video clip] American Society is engaged and mobilized in a war against a invisible enemy. We must
Know before you go. A title that just did not sing for some reason. [laughter] i want to thank our longsuffering panelists for bearing with me as i arrived at a workable concept and title. I didave a clear idea have a clear idea what i wanted the symposium to be. A blend of wellknown beakers. Blended with excellent lesserknown speakers who you should want to know well and will want to know well and have them speak about their Exciting New Research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. I stumbled on a title and a 2020. Sing the year way of providing hindsight and insight into the study of the civil war. With that concept in mind, i want to introduce our first speaker who was an obvious choice to lead off this conference. The davis has been one of most prominent and accomplished civil war scholars for several generations. He started as a boy, i think. If i recall correctly, his were civil war book, a biography of John C Breckenridge he rode as a college student. Of four award
I did have a clear idea of what i wanted the symposium to be. A blend of wellknown speakers. Blended with excellent lesserknown speakers who you should want to know well and will want to know well and have them speak about their Exciting New Research and their contributions to civil war scholarship. I stumbled on a title and a gimmick using the year 2020. As a way of providing hindsight and insight into the study of the civil war. With that concept in mind, i want to introduce our first speaker who was an obvious choice to lead off this conference. Jack davis has been one of the most prominent and accomplished civil war scholars for several generations. He started as a boy, i think. If i recall correctly, his first civil war book, a biography of John C Breckenridge he wrote as a college student. He won the first of four awards. You will find a partial list of titles of his civil war books in your program. Jack was also a longtime editor of civil war times illustrated. And editor of the
Because gold is rallying. Strengthen,inues to and treasuries continue to see their yields drop. The 10 year at 93 basis points right now. Guy we are moving pretty strongly here in europe. What a week it has been. Today we are definitely down when it comes to european equities. Seeings of what we are on the bond market, we see a bit attached to bonds. Not as aggressive as in the united states, which is worth bearing in mind. At the moment, the u. S. 10 year is down by two basis points. Nevertheless, we are 68. There seems to be some feeling that the russians wont sign up. Weve got a u. S. 10 year yielding 93 basis points. Things are moving pretty fast around here, and the words of ferris buehler. Economic activity is definitely slowing, so what comes next . Peter kinsella joins us now onsite in london. What do you make of these markets . Peter what is interesting is that youve got a combination of Global Demand shock, Global Supply shock, central Bank Reaction functions, and risky asset
At the university of virginia. She is the author of five books that probe important issues related to the sectional conflict from the American Revolution to the civil war. The trueful graffiti story of Elizabeth Van lew, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy was published in three prizes. Today, she will speak to us about her new book armies of deliverance a new history of the civil war, which was bylished earlier this year oxford. A review by some guy named Harold Holzer maybe some of you have heard of him called this a highly interesting new study. I am so glad we could have her here today at the forum to speak to us. Welcomingn me in elizabeth varon. [applause] prof. Varon all right. Can everyone hear me . Good. Yes. All right. In his first wartime message to congress delivered on child july 4, 1851, Abraham Lincoln cast secession as the work of a small band of conspirators who had duped in Calgary South into submission. The southnd cowed into submission. Relied on in had ge