Center for the humanities. Event occurred in dallas. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. He is also the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard and wesleyan, and got his ma and phd from a good friend of ours at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on i would say the early parts of the 20th century. That is what his previous work was on. He is expanding out and he and i, before we came on, we were chatting about new work on ideologies in u. S. Foreign policy, which is that book itself was a seminal book in the field in 1987 and im glad someone has
The 1918 flu pandemic altered American Life in ways that are familiar to those living through the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Conflicting information left people wary and fearful. College classes were held outside, sports were canceled, asks or challenged as unamerican, and fines imposed on those who refuse to wear them. Next, Christopher Mcknight nichols recounts how the country experienced the events of a century ago and the lessons we might learn. He directs the Oregon University center for humanities. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 that my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. Hes the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He als
A sense of what the polls are estimating of the moment. You know well at the moment the polls are telling us that joe biden has about a lead of around 10 points nationally and that hes also opened up some important leads in some of those big crucial swing states ill tell you that in florida its about 3. 8 points in michigan a little bit over 8 points in pennsylvania around 6 points and the same in wisconsin remember these are those delegate rich states that are so crucial really for both men to win but especially president if you want to secure that path to reelection i will also say that joe bidens team has been exceedingly cautious about these polls theyre well aware that they dont always reflect how people actually are already voting or how they will vote on november 3rd and that Hillary Clinton had very strong polling numbers in 2016 at the same time and one Campaign Worker speaking the media earlier this week said were actually campaigning as if we were 20 points down right now so
Another wave of covert 19 cases. Nigerias president sent out a warning to protesters after another night of widespread unrest and violence during the push for his resignation. So that in just an hours time u. S. President donald trump will meet democratic nominee joe biden for the final debate ahead of the elections on november the 3rd organizers in nashville in tennessee have made changes to the format same did avoiding a repeat of trumps interruptions during the 1st debate lets cross to our White House Correspondent can we how can his outside weather debate will be taking place in nashville in tennessee and say kimberly there will be an audience of tens of millions it promises to be quite a show so we have trouble maybe a breakthrough and biden i guess just needs to keep it steady. Yeah thats exactly it trying to avoid any major mistakes is really the goal for joe biden in all of this and for Donald Trumps part what hes trying to do is provoke that so what we expect throughout the 90
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