I would like to welcome you to tonights program. To our members we are so glad that you are here. And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem that i discovere
Use o. E. And a performance thats going around the world this is to someday the voice of italys own tribe but charlie rings out across. More than 113000 people have died of the new khurana of corona virus and of a 1800000 people worldwide have been infected in the u. K. The number of dead has now surpassed 10000 Prime Minister Cross Johnson is recovering from corona virus and is out of hospital after several days in intensive care he thanked Health Workers for saving his life but critics. His government is letting down from line stuff a failing to provide them with the right protective equipment the United States has more confirmed cases and deaths than anywhere else in the world new york state alone has reported 758 more deaths and its lead is a criticizing the white house for failing to do enough testing more than 20000 americans have died so far and the Worlds Largest Oil Producers have agreed to the biggest Production Cut in history to protect the industry from the impact of the on
Coronavirus lockdowns but the head of the w. H. O. Urges caution. Without National Unity and Global Solidarity. Class does. The worst use it to focus. For the 1st time ever u. S. Oil prices have crashed into negative territory after the markets benchmark fell more than 100 percent in a day producers are now paying stockpile is to take barrels off their hands as the man dries up due to the coronavirus pandemic and storage runs low this says many European Countries are actually starting to ease lockdown restrictions with some shock shutters lifting across germany that mark and the Czech Republic theres also positive news coming out of it for the 1st time the number of people currently reported to be infected with corona virus has fallen from yesterday by 20 however the World Health Organization has cautioned that easing lockdowns does not mean the pandemic is over its warned that without countries working together the worst is yet to come but lets start with those historical losses on th
Books on the u. S. Economy. Find more information in your program guide. Student good evening. I am Lauren Rosenberg and i would like to welcome you to tonights program. To our members im so glad youreth here its your ongoing support that make events like this possible. Into that many of you joining us and equally warm welcome and an open invitation to view the wide range of programs we have at the smithsonian institute. Now is a perfect time to turn off yourself once or anything else that might make noise or in the program, thank you for doing that. Were thrilled tonight to welcome a claim historian mary beth norton. She is the author of five books and coeditor of five others in her textbook of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and has sold more than 5000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize winning finalist and was a 28 teen finalist. She is a effexor emerita of American History at cornell university. Her new book, 1774 the long year of revolution is available for purch
Is the Oil Price War between saudi arabia and russia about to end crude prices enjoyed that biggest have a 1. 00 day rally after the us president raised hopes of a truce will donald trump intervention be enough and whats the impact of the rift between the oil superpowers this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Bernard Smith over the past month 2 of the Worlds Biggest Oil producers have been in dispute about how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic demand collapse stuff to add lines grounded the planes factories shut the doors on countries impose travel bans crude prices fell further when saudi arabia and russia couldnt agree on cutting supplies to try and force Prices Higher now u. S. President donald trump is suggesting the feud may soon end saudi arabia has called for an emergency meeting of Oil Producing nations some era challenge reports signs that an oil price will between 2 of the worlds biggest producers may and so with the biggest one day leap on record and