His miserable life in jail. Right now kpix at 7 00 and streaming bay area, the pandemic showing no signs of slowing down a california and a new record tonight for the deadliest day yet. Good evening, im Elizabeth Cook im ellen martin. Health officials reported 149 deaths in just 24 hours yesterday. That is up 23 from the previous high. California also saw more than 7000 new cases. For those who think that now people are getting it and no one is dying, that is very misleading. It is fundamentally untrue. Californias numbers are reporting, 7349 yesterday are testament to that point. Just how deadly and devastating this disease continues to be. San quentin state prison as one of the largest outbreaks in to take action. They want to see better conditions inside the prison and for more inmates to be released. This is not about oh, they did a crime, they are humans. You do not have the right to put lives in jeopardy. Nothing less than the worst Prison Health screwup in state history. People
Imi think of what talking about jen wittenberg. He would find someone to volunteer for a project. Busy people get things done and it. New we were in forc mostwhite has to be the prolific young professor. Won the outstanding faculty award for virginia. He is an active public speaker and a parent of young children. I dont know where john finds the time. Generousn very with our Education Programs to which we are grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of his varied with a and focus on Abraham Lincoln and legal and constitutional history. He is the coauthor of a book thetled civil education in future of american citizenship. Because he had a few extra minutes, he and ann holloway wrote our monitor. I asked him to speak on a topic i did not put on the printer program. A topic that draws from two other book manuscripts he is currently finishing about Abraham Lincoln and africanamericans. Ladies and gentlemen, jonathan white. [applause] jonathan thank you, john, the in
Aaron is a native of michigan not far from lansing, did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending time working in washington, d. C. And moved on to the university of virginia where he studied under gary gallagher. Book is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. His most recent book, published by harvard, titled calculus of violence how americans fought the civil war. Just again published in 2018. Aaron, lsu is a great place for him. Aaron is a self proclaimed foody so has lots of places to select from in new orleans but today well talk about his book, which has received two recent awards including the Jefferson Davis award from formerly the museum of the confederacy, now the American Civil War museum in richmond. Lets welcome aaron sheehandean. [applause] prof. Sheehandean good morning. Thank you all. I will start by saying happy fathers day to everyone in the audience. Its a weird thing to spend sunday morning talking about violence, but
Williams, chair of the Lincoln Forum, and welcome to this panel of forum 22, relating to lincolns enemies. And im so pleased to have it distinguished, every time someone says distinguished i want to run to the merlot bar. Its like saying with all due respect in my courtroom. But we do have some great scholars with us this morning. Stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln, and the nations governors. Jonathan white, author of midnight in america, and soon to be with us, the book our little monitor. And of course catherine clinton, no stranger to us, author of mrs. Lincoln, a life, and many other books. And walter stolzier, as well as lincolns secretary of war Edwin Stanton, called stanton, and he told me and i hope im not revealing any confidence, he has a glint in his eye for sammen chase. Good luck with that. Because im sure we will hear about secretary of the treasury sammen chase from professor clinton. So let me start with this. John barre, who is one of our Lincoln F
I am peter carmichael. I am a professor of history here. I am also the director of the Civil War Institute. Its my pleasure this evening to welcome harold holzer. He is the director of Hunter Colleges roosevelt house Public Policy institute. You dont have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. For the previous ten years he coedited or, excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should add president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or coauthored or edited 52 books. Thats what youre up to now. I know you think ive read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for Public Opinion. It has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by Gettysburg College. Just this week i saw it was announced that harold has been