What we think will be a rich and stimulating discussion of the subject that is ever evolving, and sometimes fastmoving. Controversial, emotional, and something that we need to talk about. And from time to time when ive done this panel with friends and colleagues, ive called it on or off their pedestals. The debate over statues, memorials, memory and meaning. And i discussed this topic maybe twice or three times with edna medford and it is evolving even between us as we proceed over a year and a half. And its a pleasure to welcome not only adamant edna medford, but also lives liz varon and Gary Gallagher to join the discussion. Memorials in 22 states and the district of columbia, 110 have been removed in the past few years. And three new ones have been built. So its good to have the opportunity to take a snapshot. At best, it will be a snapshot. And i think we all have to agree that however we feel about art, iconography, memorials, icons, history, american heroes and american villains
Withdrawing from the country following an order by the military government and all that military government took over paula in a cou a few years ago. And since then, they basically turned against form the western partners like france and the us and have moved towards russian brack groups like the wagner group. Residents of fast boy in senegal have been protesting, after at least 60 migrants from their village or fear to have died at sea. Dozens were rescued from a fishing boat found drift off the west coast of africa. Survivor save the vessel, had a 100 people on board when it left a month ago. Prosecutors in your state of georgia as opposed to march start date for the election interference trial against former president donald trump. He in 18 of his associates have been charged for racketeering. A voter fraud in the state to this president ial biden says hell travel to the island of maui on monday, after criticism. We still havent visited the scene of devastating wild fires within a 1
Explorers in the sort of interior west. So as i told you all last time, weve proceeding pretty chronologically up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a thematic topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lotf today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a thematic topic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on monday, going to control the interior west is going to be its kind o
Campaign trail a bit was news of the egypt air crash. Trump weighed in on twitter saying yet another terrorist attack. When will we get tough, smart, and vigilant . Controversial legislation in oklahoma to tell you about tonight. Lawmakers passed a billion criminalizing abortion an it is now on the governors desk. If it is signed into law, in doctor who performs an abortion would be guilty of a felony. The only exception is to save the life of the punishment. The sentence would be three years in prison or the loss of a medical license. The governor has not decided yet. Several abortion Rights Groups are promising to sue and legal experts dont expect it can survive a court battle. The state senate today passed a series of new gun control laws. Supporters say the goal is to make it more difficult for criminals to get guns. It is a package of 11 bills. One requires ammunition sellers to be licensed and background checks on those buying. Identity measure would make it illegal to possess ma
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