Welcome to our new Program Sponsored by the Institute American history. Im president of the institute were going to presenting important books in American History which involves important books i some of the major pestilence in the country. Our host will be william roka who works at the institute. William represent each of the asteroids and then guide is question and answer session toward the end. If you think you might like of the Program Sponsored by Gilder Lehrman please go to our website Gilder Lehrman. Org. Now enjoy book breaks. Hello and good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the Gilder Lehrman book breaks here on june 14. Welcome everyone. Todays guest will be professor Elizabeth Varon and a book armies of deliverance. For you guys who are not familiar with the Gilder Lehrman institute of American History, first come welcome. Were so glad you could join us. Just a little bit about Gilder Lehrman, the guild of them institute is a Nonprofit Organization dedicated to k12 history,
With the National Guard about providing reinforcements as an already devastating wildfire season. Threatens to get even worse. The scu fire complex is the second largest fire in state history. Scorching now more than 365,000 acres containment is up to 20 . Its followed closely in size historically and currently by the lnu complex fire which has burned more than 356,000 acres in the north bay that complex is 27 contained and then theres the czu complex in the Santa Cruz Mountains thats burned. But 80,000 acres and containment has grown to 19 altogether these local fires have burned about 800,000 acres in just over a week all right, lets get a closer look at each of those major we start off with the scu lightning complex and. Contra costa Alameda Santa clara, san joaquin and stanislaus counties more than 365,000 acres have been scorched in the fires are 20 contained tonight, 5 people have been injured 3 1st responders and 2 others more than 20,000 structures are threatened. Now that lnu
They said its unsafe because fire still threatens this community. And im live here at the Fire Department got some information for everybody theyre bracing for higher temperatures. Take a look at the terrain that theyre facing this is some video that i shot yesterday before leaving the area. I was reporting on sweet water springs road and you can see its very steep. The road is narrow. Its a single lane road and that cal fire truck basically takes up the entire lane and they are have been use monitoring the flames and putting them out and yesterday was pretty calm until about 00 03pm in the afternoon when they expected that wind to come in thats exactly what happened the fire began raging yet again cal fire crews say the flames were going hard for at least 3 hours until 6 at night when he started to calm down a little bit. The fire in this area near guerneville and west of healdsburg has burned more than 20,000 acres says a fire fighter here at the Fire Department, its still 0 containe
Straight days. Officials confirmed 143 new infections in the capital on tuesday bringing the citys total to nearly 8,200. Many of the cases are among young people who work at or who have visited night life districts. Translator the number of infected people is increasing considerably. We have to deal with the situation with a sense of crisis. Nishimura is in charge of the governments coronavirus response. He says officials and experts will discuss if night clubs that dont act in accordance with antivirus guidelines should be asked to close. Cluster infections have also been confirmed outside night life districts including about 40 actors, and patrons at a theater in tokyo. A woman who attended the performance says it was a crowded, enclosed venue. Health officials are asking 850 people who worked at or attended shows over the course of a week to take a virus test. More than 22,000 people have tested positive for the virus in japan. Nearly 1,000 people have died. The panel of experts ad
A game works on parts of government. You kill the postal service, merry the armed forces, screw agriculture subsidies, mary Social Security and healthcare reform tells us. Great tools because in a free and democratic country politics is a stool balanced on a tripod of power, freedom, and responsibility. We live in a free and democratic he. A little less democratic than it was before last night. Also a great tool of political analysis because we are so passionate about our politics and how do passionate affairs end . And a passion, usually coming in a crime of passion sometimes and occasionally they turn into stable, permanent legal arrangements which is to say the endless. This quarrel known as marriage so how do we approach the Political Institutions of our free and democratic country, do we ever grow throw them with violence, do we screw around cheating on them while based cheat on us or do we try to build something lasting and boring but worthy and annoying, marvelously virtuous and