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antwan: and tonight a fourth person has died in legionnaires disease in the south bronx now the investigation is underway to track down that source opinion hello good evening everyone i m antwan lewis christina is off. new york city health department announced fourth death today. 60 cases have been reported in the south bronx since early a last month. fox 5 lidia curanaj has the very latest from the mott haven neighborhood. the cooling tower here at lincoln hospital is one of five site it ises that tested positive for the bacteria that caused legionnaires disease. all five sites decontaminated but people here in the bronx say they can t help but wonder is the worst over? we have to walk around around we have to breathe. yet that is how 65 people in the south bronx were sickened with legionnaires disease. they all inhaled a bacteria that causes the-like illness so far four died and 55 remain hospitalized. ferghts that s public, you know, public places that s sca ....
getting in the downs minivan i m going cross-country. that is not stressful to think about it all, isn t it. going live on c-span is nothing compared to that. he is a specialist in history of the united states. he is a graduate of the iowa workshop which is many know is a program of note for aspiring fiction writers. it is promoted peace, i do not know the title but i know that it won the flannery o connor award. is a very good writer who has decided to turn to the craft of history. his most recent book is entitled the end to war: fighting the civil war after appomattox. i am not the most perceptive but i am guessing your trick is different than what we heard from patrick gallagher last night. [laughter] peter carmichael: we re looking forward to hearing your presentation, the a war that could not end at appomattox. greg downs. [applause] gregory downs: thank you so much and i want to thank also allison jordan and diane and everyone at the cwi for inviting me and taki ....
america. american history tv was live today from gettysburg, pennsylvania, on a symposium on the end of the civil war and its aftermath. coming up next, all of our coverage from the day including consequences and treason and loyalty in the civil war era. the talks were part of the annual conference. good morning. i am peter carmichael. i am a professor of history at gettysburg college. director of the civil war institute. it is my pleasure to introduce gregory downs. greg has recently accepted a job at uc davis on the other side of the coast so this summer he will be packing up his family and getting in the downs minivan i m going cross-country. that is not stressful to think about it all, isn t it. going live on c-span is nothing compared to that. he is a specialist in history of the united states. he is a graduate of the iowa workshop which is many know is a program of note for aspiring fiction writers. it is promoted peace, i do not know the title but i know tha ....
good morning again, i am peter carmichael. i am a member of the history department and the director of the civil war institute and it is my pleasure to introduce lesley gordon. she started her academic career at the college of william and mary ann went on to the university of georgia where she studied. she completed her dissertation on general george pickett which became a book which is a model biography, published by the university of north carolina. and the inspiration for all of this of course begins right here at the civil war institute in 1983. she was one of the high school scholarship recipients that came here. one of many who was gone on to have academic careers. as you all know we have a strong contingent of high school scholarship award winners this summer as well. she now teaches at the university of akron undergraduate as well as graduate students. for a very long time she was the editor of the journal of civil war history and i believe her tenure is coming ....
several years ago, a police report in the bronx was whited out. he would this was a race from the report and the police report was given to an attorney representing a man on trial for murder. this week, that man was released . the district attorney released realized he did not receive a fair trial. he lost six years of his life. amy: and then to the streets of berkeley, california, where a fight broke out this weekend between white nationalist trump supporters and anti-fascist supporter protesters. people were arrested. we will get the latest. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. u.s. defense secretary james mattis arrived in saudi arabia tuesday for the first stop on his week-long trip to the middle east and north africa. speaking on the plane to reporters, mattis hailed the u.s.-saudi arabia relationship. way to firstour stop is saudi arabia. as you know, this is a nation that has bee ....