The lead eric dolin, history and the hurricanes in america and he got blasted by hurricane laura in the whole area. We were speaking earlier in thinking i probably have many weeks if not months of no power with the water system and even people as far north as monroe, they are still without power so i will have to go after them. We are here today with jack davis in conversation with our author and jack is a professor of history specializing in environmental history and sustainability studies and also the author of the posterior prizewinning the making of an american see, the New York Times book review to know collected see in addition to the Pulitzer Prize with the New York Times book for 2017 it made several other list for that year including washington post, mpr and forbes. Jack, welcome, its a pleasure to have you here with us today. My pleasure to be here. Let them start the conversation. One final thing, people have questions, they can write that in the chat room and will try to ge
Plus, our lester holt with a rare oneonone with a celebrated world war ii veteran. Early today starts right now. Good Tuesday Morning im phillip mena. Glad youre with us im Frances Rivera a historic moment across the pond over in the uk, vday is under way. Thats what theyre calling the mass vaccination effort for covid19 people are getting their first immunizations. Our matt bradley joins us now from london. Certainly a pivotal day for london and the world, matt. Reporter its really historic you mentioned vday. We havent heard that since world war ii how historic and how, you know, lifechanging the British Government considering this. With just about 2 1 2 hours since we saw Maggie Keenan she was the first person to receive the dose she was administered that vaccine by may parsons shes among the first group of persons to receive this. Its going to be rolled out in the states starting with residents of nursing homes, caregivers at nursing homes, and doctors for the National Health servi
States voted to decide who they want to see as the next president but in kentucky there are concerns that got everyone will get to vote. The rebels in yemen say theyve launched their Largest Military operation across the border in saudi arabia but the Saudi Led Coalition says that its intercepted just one Ballistic Missile. At a powerful earthquake rocks southern mexico tsunami warnings were issued along coastlines throughout Central America. And in sports tennis world number one of a joke of it just tested positive for corona virus 3 other top players also tested positive after taking part in a series of events organized by joke of it yourself. U. S. Health Officials Say that theyve not been asked to slow down coronavirus testing even though donald trump says that he instructed stuff to do so member. The u. S. Coronavirus task force and Public Health officials are testifying at a congressional hearing about the governments response to the pandemic democratic politicians have consisten
The 2011 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the organization of american historians and the 2011 distinguished book award from the society for military history. He is also a part of so many projects that i continue to be talking about around the nation as we are giving these Teacher Professional Development workshops. One of those is called world war i america. You can find a video with him as well as some questions and things that he helped curate to really change how our students think about world war i. So it is a true pleasure to have dr. Williams back. He is currently completing a book on w. E. B. Dubois and world war i, just completing a radcliffe fellowship with harvard university. This morning, dr. Williams will discuss africanamerican soldiers and the rise of the new negro. Please help me in welcoming back to the museum and memorial our friend, dr. Chad williams. [applause] dr. Williams good morning, everyone. Hope everybody is doing well. I hope we are all awake, got our co
Served as the special assistant for human rights and began her career as a journalist reporting from places such as bosnia, kosovo and zimbabwe and was the director for the human rights policy at the kennedy s school. Her book a problem from hell was the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 also the author of the bestselling book the fight to save the world and o the most recent book we wl bebeec discussing today the education of an idealist is was published by harpercollins in september of this year and ive just learned it is shortlisted for the irish book prize. Congratulations. [applause] and one more time please join me in welcoming samantha power. [applause] theres a reason this is my first trip to austin. We are going to start off the session with a brief reading. I want to set the stage for the conversation and i thought the reading i would do today is one that speaks to the challenges that we are facing figuring out how to engage with people that we disagree with vehemently so this is the sc