Thank you to our symposium coordinators kevin pollack and dan welch. Unfortunately, because of the covid pandemic we had to postpone this years inperson symposium and all the work kevin and dan did to get ready for that weve postponed to next year. Tickets are available at this time but theyre the ones who stepped up to help make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you for your work. I would like to introduce our next speaker, sarah kay bierle, the managing editor of emerging civil war, the one working behindthescenes to keep the blog up and going and make sure that all that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is absolutely invaluable to our organization. Sarah is the author of the emerging civil war series call out the cadet from the emerging civil war series, the battle of new market. She is also at work on the gallant pelham and will present some of her Research Associated with that book today. Sarah kay bierle. Well, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening.
For a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. Well begin tonight with what happened after a simple request to wear a mask. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. And im dione lynn. This come is sharing this story to protect her family. In this story, you will see only on abc 7. Its really unacceptable to feel fear in your own home neighborhood. Reporter that fear is exactly the reason she is choosing only to use her first name in sharing the story behind this racist letter. It just basically says i wear my mask if i want, f word, asian. You create the virus. Reporter it all began with a walk with her twin infant girls when she spotted a man near by. He wasnt wearing a max. I asked when he came into ear shot that he wear a mask. Reporter what happened next was the beginning of a nightmare. He locked eyes with me and immediately started charging up the hill at me. Reporter she ran into her home terrified. Her husband then scared the man away. He came rushing out because he heard the
You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
Carolina. My mom and dad met while they were students at Friendship Junior College in iraq hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship, they moved permanently to great falls. Initially, they were both school teachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching, because he discovered that what was listed on his contract as his per month payment was not the same as he was receiving. This was at a time when the boards of education for all composed of waste men, and so at the end of the year my father approached a person who was a scientist voucher for a payment. He said i noticed that there is a discrepancy here. It was a five dollar difference between what he was supposed to be paid and what he was receiving. For questioning the five dollar differential, which the School Board Member was pocketing, my father was terminated as a teacher. My mother continued to be a teacher. In fact, my first seven yea
Valley and also right here through the sierra as well. Lets go ahead and zone in on these lightening striking. You can see over the past 30 minutes, we have seen 19 lightening strikes. So definitely things have started to pick up with this suddenly moisture push of some humidity and that instability. A closer look down here and you can see some light showers developing. It really hasnt been too heavy yet. And weve had some hit and miss showers over the bay area this evening. Another batch here moving toward hayward as we head to 11 31 tonight. We are expecting on and off lightening chances through tomorrow until 5 00 p. M. Monday. If we get some thunderstorms here, that could bring us isolated wind gusts of 30 miles an hour. And the other thing i want to get to is the air quality. It will stay unhealthy tomorrow. I went out for just five minutes tonight and, you know, you can feel your throat burning, your eyes are watery. It is the worst of worst conditions were dealing with right now