Fastpaced report of the stories of the day. Listen to cspan any time. Tell your smart speaker, play c span radio. Cspan, powered by cable. It is my pleasure to welcome dr. Woods of back to the library and to give a presentation on mormon transmigration in missouri between 1838 and 1868. These decades were an overlooked period of lds in missouri, history, when latter day saints traversed hundreds of miles across the state, despite a government extermination threat, issued by the governor. Woods has been a professor of Church History and doctrine at Brigham Young University Since 1998. He specializes in latter day saints immigration studies, and is the editor of the saints by the sea, since by the sea website, which documents lds maritime immigration in america , in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is editor and compiler of the mormon immigration index, which was released in 2000, and is widely used by researchers. Woods has authored and co authored more than a dozen books and score
Reasons, but the number one reason today that i love aei is because only here is a conference on government statistics more popular than the rolling stones. That is a great thing. This is a topic that doesnt normally get headlined, but lets face it, in a time when the phrase alternative facts has entered the american lexicon, is anything more important than what were going to talk about today. At aei we arent completely dedicated to the proposition that rigorous, rocksolid Empirical Data are essential for evaluating the success and failure of Public Policy and for ensuring that we are fulfilling the true purpose of our work which is to help more people live a better life. We are delighted to partner with the Brookings Institution and the hamilton project to examine this critical subject and we are co releasing a paper on the topic and this is a free event for that paper. I want to introduce our panel in our keynote speaker. Our panel today starts with Martin Feldstein of harvard and th
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