Colleague, michael holt. Michael holt is the professor of American History here at the university of virginia. He was educated at princeton and learned his ph. D. At Johns Hopkins university. With time offer visiting professional ships at cambridge, yale, stanford and other institutions. He has been at the university of virginia since 1974. He has written widely and deeply about 19 century political history. For many years his writing focus on the years before the civil war. Both the political crisis of the 19 fifties has become the standard for advanced college courses. His 1999 book, the rise involve the american w. H. I. P. Party, draconian politics in the onset of the civil war, was the runner up for the lincoln prize, his most often described as magisterial. And that is not just because of his 1296 heft. More recently, he has written of the reconstruction period following the war. By one vote the disputed election of 1876, it tells the story of americas closest election which perh
Theater and it happened in lafayette, louisiana around 8 30 our time and during a showing of the amy shumer comedy train wreck. Were told now three people are dead including gunman and gunman apparently took his own life 7 others injured and dont know the except ever the injuries tonight a witness described the scene. We were buying popcorn at concession and a whole group of people teenagers mainly ruining out telling attorney run for their life and we thought it was playing a bravrping prank and i see another bigger group saying the same thing and my reaction was we saw a lady with blood all over her legs and i just grabbed my towel and we all ran. Lafayette is about 60 miles west of baton rouge again. Three dead including the shooter in this situation tonight well continue to follow breaking story and bring you more information as we get it throughout the newscast. This is how it looked from chopper 6 tonight as flames devoured four homes in lindenwald Camden County this was a fastmo
I really like pillows. Maybe too much. Go ahead, call me a hoarder. Ive got these little enablers ziploc spacebags. See . Way more space. [whispered] for more pillows. Sj johnson it is thursday night and jim off. Im brian taff. We begin with breaking news tonight. It is happened again. Another mass shooting at Movie Theater and it happened in lafayette, louisiana around 8 30 our time and during a showing of the amy shumer comedy train wreck. Were told now three people are dead including gunman and gunman apparently took his own life 7 others injured and dont know the except evever the injuries tonight a witness described the scene. We were buying popcorn at concession and a whole group of people teenagers mainly ruining out telling attorney run for their life and we thought it was playing a bravrping prank and i see another bigger group saying the same thing and my reaction was we saw a lady with blood all over her legs and i just grabbed my towel and we all ran. Lafayette is about 60
Michael holt will. At the professor university. He was educated at princeton and phd at Johns Hopkins university. For time off at Cambridge University yale, stanford, and other institutions, cold has other institutions, cold has, been at the University Since 1970 or. Hes written deeply about political history. For many years, his writing focus was on the years before the civil war. The political crisis of the 19 1950s,ese of the which he wrote about, has been used for political courses. , was the runner up for the lincoln prize and is notten described as just because of the 1296 pages. More recently, he has written about the construction the reconstruction following the war. Is by one vote the disputed president ial election of 1876 tells the story of americas closest president ial election, which perhaps coincidentally, had the highest percentage of eligible voters participating during any election, 81. 5 . Please welcome michael holt. [applause] michael thank you. It was tthe 1850s t
Contest of 2000. And its no coincidence, in fact, that three years after the 2000 lection, two new books about the election of 1876 appeared ith the 2000 contest clearly in mind. One was by a bitter democrat. Its title says it all. Braud of the century, rother ford b hey. The republicans had stolen elections before. The other interesting thing, lee, was former chief which was sort of subtle defeet or subtle degeese in. He went into deciding whether to settle the election of 1876. There were certainly parallels, sometimes eerie. In 1876, as in pho two. As in 2000, electoral votes were in dispute, including the electoral roets of florida but also the electoral votes of South Carolina and louisiana that were being disputed. In act, all three of those states ent contesting sets of electoral votes to washington to be counted. Now, theres emocratic electors and republican electors. In 2000, here were people who counted rutherford b. Hays as an. I was originally approached by editors of a new