after months of negotiating, lawmakers on capitol hill have finally agreed on a $900 billion relief package. good evening everyone, i m frank sommerville. the bill includes $600 stimulus payments for most americans, $300 in weekly unemployment assistance without a job, and more than $200 billion for struggling small businesses. many democrats are calling the agreement a survival package. reporter: yes, the senate s top democrat, chuck schumer said it is not what some republicans and democrats would have liked but it is the first step. lawmakers on both sides knew they needed to act before leaving washington for christmas and before unemployment benefits run out at the end of the month. moments ago, in conversations with the committee, the house finalized an agreement. after months of tense negotiations, they reached a deal sunday on a long-overdue covid relief package, mitch mcconnell making the announcement on the senate floor. will be another major rescue package
conference quick welcome to new perspectives and sources, this is a panel to devoted to understanding a horrific series events that started just over i d years ago where african americans were hunted down by an raged crowd of whites in arkansas, i want to recognize the work lancaster did in helping to organize this panel, in unfortunately he had to change his plans to join us, and participate all three of our scholars, here on this panel are contributors to a book edited, we are shamelessly plugging that right here, the elaine mascara in arkansas, a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819 to 1919, full disclosure i read it to, this is not about me, i want to introduced all three of our panelists first, though each present for about 20 to 25 minutes, and after that i will spend just a few minutes offering some thoughts, designed to generate discussion and then we will enjoy a question, answer i will get out of the, way we will go in the order of the program first matthew hill
up next, a discussion about the racially motivated 1919 elaine, arkansas massacre. panelists contributed to the book. part of the 2000 19 southern historical association s annual conference. .- 2019 welcome to new perspectives and sources on the elaine massacre of 1919. this is devoted to advancing our understanding of a horrific series of events that began just over 100 years ago in which african-americans were hunted by a paranoid and enraged crowd of whites in the arkansas delta. i want to recognize the work of guy lancaster and helping to organize this panel. unfortunately, he had to change his plans to join us and participate. all three of our scholars on this panel are contributors to a book edited by guy lanchester. we are shamelessly plugging that here. a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819-1919. full disclosure. i am in there but this is not about me. i want to introduce our panelists. they will each present for 25 minutes. after that, i will spend a few min
the harrisburg heritage center hosted this talk. our next presentation is from mr. tim smith. we go way back, close to 30 years of knowing each other. he is originally from the baltimore, maryland area. he is a licensed battlefield guide here at gettysburg national park. he has authored several books. he is a former instructor at harrisburg area community college. he does appear regularly on pennsylvania cable network s battle walk series. he is a research historian with the adams county historical society. the one thing they neglected to put in his biography is he was our lead historian here at the heritage center. we need to add that to your resume. his topic today is on john burns. without any further introduction i will give you tim smith. [applause] i wanted to talk a little bit tonight about john burns, the hero of gettysburg. you might have noticed on my introductory slide i put it in quotes. i think the hero of gettysburg is the term i which he referred to himse
tireless advocate for reading and literacy and cochairman of the national book festival, david rubenstein. [cheers and applause] thank you. so, i will call you matalin. we were together in the white house for many years. you just came from the funeral service for senator mccain. could you talk about that in your relationship with him? first of all, and delighted to be here and to let it be with you. we have known each other for 30 years. before you were who you are. but it was really a very moving service because it had so many of the themes that senator mccain has really been identified with in terms of service to country both in a military way and also civilian and his time and attributes really spoke to that. it was incredibly well-planned but what was so fascinating was that obviously senator mccain planned all this, that he had asked president w. bush and president obama to be the speakers to people who defeated him and they made comments about the fact, isn t it int