Former, and most recently, Civil War Monuments and the militarization of america which one the book award from the society of civil war historians as best book of the year on the issues of the civil war era. Hes been the editor of several influential volumes, including a particularly still relevant and useful set of edited essays on reconstruction originally issued almost 15 years ago, but still relevant today and a topic we wrestle with today. As well as a number of edited volumes. We are delighted to have him join us today. I will lead him with the first question, if you are ready . You might be muted. Things we aret of going to want to touch on in a relatively brief time today. Monograph,arkable you approach memorials and all kinds of interesting ways that we will want to touch on as works of art, what happens if we context in a national rather than bifurcated into , northern, andrn confederate stories. And what cultural readings we can read from them beyond the meaning of the civil
Historical overview of the topic of abortion and start nationally and then look at california specifically, specifically on the topics of specialized abortion or abortion specialists and decriminalization and then go back to the National Contact to look at roe v. Wade and some of the legislation thats happened since then and in some of the more recent years. So if you recall from around week 1 or 2, we did have a rebrief zrouks on the topic of abortion in the colonial period nd we talked about sarah gorspiner and her abortion in the 1940s and had a brief introduction to it but today were going to pick up around e time of the com stock act, does anyone remember of the com stock act from a couple weeks ago, can you tell us what it is . [ advertising contraceptives or information on no advertising of contraceptives and the dissemination of the stuff in the mail. So good. The comstock act effectively made it criminal to advertise these things beginning around 1873. Now, we showed you guys
This, as with other aspects of this nightmarish problem the u. S. Needs to lead its partners in the region and internationally in stepping up the effort so its closer to the level of the problem. We have again, we have declaratory policies about humanitarian issues but theres no followthrough. People make pledges they never deliver. Ive looked at camps in kurdistan. I remember seeing the sea of tents last year in northern jordan where syrians have come. Ive seen the camps in turkey. And, you know, if you really want to think about the nightmare, think about all those young men in those camps. Very little jobs, money, but radical preachers. People talking to them about settling scores and its a formula for not just another four, eight years of trouble but a generation of nightmarish problems. We saw what happened when the palestinians were dispersed and went into camp and had radicals banging them every day about the struggle. And i think its i fear its already too late to have caught t
For tonight more evening showers and thunderstorms waiting on the bigger batch over d. C. There is potential that storms could have gusty winds and even small hail. Delaware and southern knowledge they broke into sunshine today and temperature theres near 80 degrees with the possibility of isolate the severe storms. Heading into the weekend i am tracking some unsettled weather it wont be a washout and ill talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. We have the latest now on helicopter tragedy in delaware a pilot was killed when his medical held cop crashed. It ended in smoke and flames. Sara bloomquist and vernon odom are on the scene. Sabra let start with you. This is the same company that supplied choppers for the university of Pennsylvania Health system. Reporter jim that is right, but the pilot was the only person on board. No patients or penn medicine employees we learned the pilot was a 37yearold man from franklinville, new jersey, the chopper went down in a Drainage Ditch
David letterman takes the stage one last night. Its beginning to look like im not going to get the tonight show. A starstudded sendoff from president s to rock stars to daves son. All there to honor the late night legend after his 33year run. Thank you and good night. [ cheers and applause ] and we do say good morning, america. 33 years, 6,028 shows. A lot of laughs. What a career for David Letterman. So nice to see his wife and his son there last night. His son even brought a friend along with him. He sure did. What about that allstar top ten list . Steve martin, Jerry Seinfeld julia louisdreyfus. Pitch perfect farewell. Well talk about it more later. Breaking news a suspect has been named in that mansion murder mystery. Police hunting for this man right here in the murder of three members of a family and their housekeeper. Abcs ryan smith is in washington with the latest. Good morning, ryan. Reporter good morning, robin. Overnight Police Searching for a suspect on the run connected,