Than 1918, when contagion ravaged the world, shuttering schools, closing businesses and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became known 102 years ago as the spanish flu is Katharine Arnold who poured over eye witnesses accounts of the illness from it early beginningses at places like military nice kansas to it effect on a number of prominent american writers like john stein barbing and katherine porter. She read has she is the author of self book but the history of london and her book, the world of shake pierces london was pushed in i simon and shoe center 2015. She union us from the uk, woman, california catharine; n tell to go your ofolk tuesdayed on first person accounts, doctors, flurries, children. Why did you take such a personal view of the pandemic . I wanted to write a book that people could relate to. Spanish flu where people could read it and find characters like themselves. At times almost like a disaster movie, get people stuck on the titanic or
Also stealing this line from another friend of the museum, doctor, dr. Nyberg. Potentially, there is only one thing you can learn from the world war. That thing would be dont forget to get your flu shot. [laughter] so, ladies and gentlemen, do remember that, also, we did get the wonderful thing called daylight savings time because of world war i in the United States and other countries around the world. Also, a nice little psa. Do not forget saturday into sunday, we will fall back and you get one extra hour of sleep. Maybe it means you get to enjoy even hardier this evenings dinner. Now, i am so pleased to introduce our next speaker. Dr. Nancy bristow is a distinguished professor of history at the university of puget sound where she specializes in 20th century American History with an emphasis on race, gender, and social change, and serves on the Leadership Team of the race and pedagogy institute. She is the author of 1996 is social engineering and the great war and 2012s american pand
Also stealing this line from another doctor, dr. Nyberg. Potentially, there is only one thing you can learn from the world war. That thing would be dont forget to get your flu shot. [laughter] so, ladies and gentlemen, do also, we did get that wonderful thing called daylight savings time because of world war i in the United States and other countries around the world. Also, a nice little psa. Do not forget saturday into sunday, we will fall back and you get one extra hour of sleep. Maybe it means you get to enjoy even hardier this evenings dinner. Now, i am so pleased to introduce our next speaker. Dr. Nancy bristow is a distinguished professor of history at the university of puget sound where she specializes in 20th century American History with an emphasis on race, gender, and social change, and serves on the Leadership Team of the institute. Team of the race and pedagogy institute. She is the author of 1996 is social engineering and the great war 2012s american pandemic of the 1918l
at the intersection of the second amendment, and the first protesters are rallying at the tennessee state capitol as three democratic lawmakers could lose their jobs today for doing this a week ago. democratic state representatives . justin jones, justin pearson and gloria johnson, using a bullhorn during a gun control rally at the capitol to call for action in the wake of last month s deadly shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead. the three democratic lawmakers are accused of breaking house rules at any moment. we expect their colleagues to vote on whether or not they should be expelled. cnn national reporter ryan young is live for us in nashville ryan lots of noise still ongoing, a lot of protesters that were with the lawmakers one week ago are back there today to support these three legislatures. yeah we really seen this swell fred. in terms of protesters, we have thousands earlier outside. now you can see this small crowd that s still behind me. som
Defeat for environmentalists. The white house saying drilling could begin this summer. President obama hosting leaders from six gulf countries this week at camp david and the white house. Those discussions are expected to discover iran syria, isil and other issues affecting the region. But the rulers of a number of gulf countries cant going to be there, most notably saudi arabia. He says he is going to miss the summit because it coincides with the peace talks in yemen. Mike viqueira joins us. What does this say about the nogo . Reporter they are denying the fact that it was a snub. Other observers believe it ekes aboutly that, a message the saudis are sending. Disappointed at the president s negotiations leading to an interim deal with iran. The fact that they sat down at the table through secret negotiations with iran to begin with. The situation in yemen, the saudilead air campaign there, backed by the United States with intelligence and logistics, but the United States becoming very