Outside the rest the world. In some ways, this is not a new thing. People have been brining people up and writing histories years civil war since after the conflict ended. A combination of the sesquicentennial from new rethinkings on what 19thcentury globalization is, and our current context where americans are rethinking what it means to be part of a larger world in a postcold war era has generated a lot of rich scholarship in the last decade or so that situates the u. S. Civil war in a broader context. We are fortunate to have three young and excellent scholars who are going to help guide us through this. We look forward to your questions at the end. I am going to start to my left, Dave Thompson is assistant professor of history at sacred heart university. He was aa Knowledge High School scholarship student some time ago. [applause] his research focuses on finance during the civil war. His first book the evolution of Global Financial markets in the civil war era is slated for publica
Complete the ship and be ready for launch in about five years. Five years seems like a long time to me. Applause mr musk is a serious person, but serious people can be seriously wrong. But is itjust possible that we are poised for a breakthrough in travel up there, that would incidentally also revolutionise travel down here on earth . Well ask Astronaut Chris Hadfield if he is an optimist about the future of space travel, or not. The chief executive of microsoft tells us what governments can do if they think tech giants pay too little tax . Any country can always throw any multinational out when they feel that theyre not creating value in their country. Its absolutely within their right. And mick fleetwood, he of Fleetwood Mac. We were a blues band and we were in the church of, in the presence of, playing music with our heroes in their home. Hello. Its a big friendly rocket. A giant one. Bfr is the name given to it, and according to the billionaire entrepreneur elon musk, its coming re
Ashton, the weather watchers are wide awake. They sure are. Were reporting cold temperatures. Its the First Official freeze of the season for denver this morning. Its right on schedule. Thats whats happening. Orlando in littleton reporting 32 degrees. Cbs weather watcher there. 13 degrees this morning. Its very cold in the mountains. Lets get a check on the traffic. He lets take a look at the drive going west into town. I70 eastbound, eastbound 6th avenue, highway 285 and eastbound 470 are looking nice wide and open for now. I will give you your full traffic picture coming up. Hurricane matthew hitting hard spinning off the coast straight east of Cape Canaveral at the moment. It is a category three storm at winds of 120 miles an hour on theres a path of destruction in the caribbean. Thats a roof getting ripped away from a home in the bahamas. Winds are so strong they caused this damage here. You can feel the droplets hit your hands, arm, head. Its felt across the florida coast. This is
Experience, where we relive, remember and relate to the events that are cemented in history im ellee pai hong. And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. This is through the decades. Longfellow called it the universal language. Plato said it gives wings to the mind and hendrix insisted it never lied. What they and so many were describing is music. It has the power to connect and define the decades. So today we are looking back at some morable milestones in music from a sound that would define detroit to t dawn of disco and the legacy of the incomp fraarable sinatra. But we begin with the for of nature known as beatlemania. The fab four sparked the hysteria in 1964 when they another level when they landed on the west coast ready for their first u. S. Concert ur. Stepping off the plane the day before tir first concert tour began in san fran, the beatles were welcomed by 50,000 delirious fans. Andthis is beatleland formerly known as britain, where an epidemic called beatlemania h
Contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. With six emmy nominations for hitormiss on fox, hugh laurie is in this thankful edition. Now on his second blues cd did it rain we start our conversation, first of all, cut from the cd called evening. Even though i try how can i go on evening i dont care if i dont awaken since my babys gone since my babys gone every artist i talk to either loves or hates the way they sound. Hate. Its always been that way. I cant stand myself on voice mail, anything. I think thats the natural state. I cant i cannot understand people who are happy to look at themselves, hear themselves. Its a mystery to me. I admire it. My god, i wish i could do it, but i cant. How does one how does one judge how does hugh laurie judge whether or not he is happy with a project . How do you figure out if you are not enamored by your own sound . Im resigned to perpetual i need about ten years to go by, and i can look back on something and i think that was