new all me chrome very. and we hear from the world health organization special cove at envoy about whether there is cause for concern. i m really hopeful that 1st to go the acts vaccines will work reasonably well. and secondly, that this doesn t prove to be a much nasty virus than the earliest drains. and joe biden is accused by republicans of surrendering to vladimir putin bind, dropping russia punishments from a defense bill that says, democrats draft what they are labeling them. mother of all sanctions targeting moscow. ah, wherever you are counting the program from today. welcome to moscow on to then use our on our t. my name s union o neill during last summer s u. s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan. many were moved by scenes of desperate parents passing their babies to western soldiers to get them out of the country. one child lost lost in the chaos at copolla report. now there is a glimmer of hope about the baby boy may have been found. nic urine picks up the story. t
the birmingham, alabama, public library hosted this talk. in the days following the murders of the pulse nightclub in orlando, like a lot of people i was following the news accounts and reading what i could find to read and trying to make some sense of what had happened. in doing that, i came across an editorial online by nancy unger. that short editorial helps me understand the importance of gay bars and clubs in a way i had never understood before as gathering places. and as places of activism and places of great significance in american history. i decided that day we had to bring nancy unger to birmingham so she should could so she could s share so she could share her insight. nancy unger is professor of history at the santa clara university where she began her course on gays and lesbians in u.s. history in 2004. the simple class can be seen on the c-span online library. her work on lgbtq history is featured in her 2012 book you want nature s housekeepers. american
his files to using get his way, often times, with politicians. mansecond is of a secretive wearing a feather blower, sashaying around washington, ..c. with his lover one of those is verifiable. based on historical evidence. .he other is not nevertheless it has become an irrepressible cultural meme rooted in innuendo, and supposition. it captured the two major hoover era of sessions. .ommunists and gays until now the fbi preoccupation with gays and the means a targeted gays have not been documented and examined only in limited ways. public discourses over the fbi and gays center around the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through overcompensation. we cannot know what his sexuality was unless we are willing to use stereotyping as evidence of a person s character or nature. having no convincing evidence sexuality isover s a causal factor in explaining why is fbi targeted gaze for 40 targeted gays for 40 years is not helpful to understanding what the fbi did. let me take
there s a scene on the day of the vote where fernando wood is waving papers saying i have affidavits. that s not 19th century congress. that s what you realize when you see a movie like lincoln. or think about mr. smith goes to washington, almost all of what we think we know about past politics comes from movies. and popular culture, and we absorb it so much, we think it s real. that s why it s so important to try to sort it out. i don t want to be one of those scholar squirrels that gore vidal used to make fun of, but that s what i have been doing, digging around in the script and pointing out the small differences, but ultimately, they matter. as much as i think you re right, the lincoln movie will produce good things, when we teach it, teachers need to be aware of how it departs from what we know about the record. greg. you need to wait for the microphone. sorry, how does it skew in terms of younger audiences? because my experience, which could be which is only anecdot
climactic scene on the floor of the house on the day of the vote, january 1st, 1865, they have james spader and john hay running to the white house to get the note from lincoln. none of that happened. the note, we think, is real, though we don t have the original of it. it s a recollection from james ashley, but james spader s character, william bilbo, was in new york at the time, at the st. nicolas hotel. the lobbyists were in new york in the final weeks of the fight working the press. the race scene is just a hollywood chase scene. it s no different than the airport race scene in argo and i have no problem with that, like i said, but key moments in this story are altered. and they re altered for dramatic reasons. we need to understand that if we re going to teach it and appreciate it. i call it fiction and i don t mean it as an insult, but i do think people need to appreciate the difference betweenviction and the record. the record is far more complicated. i think it s ju