Freeman talks about her life in writing, she appeared in her monthly call in program in depth in september 2019. Joanne freeman, youre gonna hate this opening question. [laughter] trace the arc of our nations history from 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow. I wont use the word hate. [laughter] thats a little daunting. Trace the arc. Im gonna do historian thing and speak generally. I guess i would say if youre looking at american politics from the beginning straight to we could even go past the civil war you are talking about paradoxes and conflict and improv. The periods i tend to focus on really more the early part of the earth and its the improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else because the nation was founded in a world of monarchy and the United States was a republic beyond that there was a lot of open grounds theres a lot of improv in those early decades about what the onation is, how it functions, the tone of the governme
Im a. D. And digger halperin, the senior mellon postdoctoral fellow in womens history public history at the New York Historical society. Tonights program, the chinese lady gaga way in early america, will. Approximately 45 minutes, including 15 minutes for questions and answers at the end. And now im tonights program will last approximately 45 minutes. Including 15 minutes for questions and answers at the end. Now im delighted to introduce tonight speakers. Nancy davis of the Smithsonian Institution no. As curator she works on exhibition material culture, asian influence on american culture, migration and immigration, and business history. Her scholarly work focuses on womens history, asian influence on american culture, and sinoamerican trade. She has a phd in american studies from George Washington university in washington, d. C. And has taught at a graduate level at numerous colleges and universities. Her books the chinese lady came out from Oxford University prep in july 2019. She i
Where they. 2 and to go, how are they going to get out . Students occupied the main goal at the university bounds to them demanding that advise us from israel link company. And Donald Trumps for middle and Michael Cohen is set to testify as his criminal trial. Turned on piece of statement with us both matches. The said he boss, pick audio losing his team, theyll lose the premium. The title if they fail to be talk them on tuesday. Well hear from him later, this new. So the, whats now 1500. 00 cmt and we begin this news hour in gaza for hundreds of thousands of palestinians of fleeing is rarely advanced as both in the north and south of casa, these really ami. It has essentially divided the strip through the so called and thats r m card or which should control as you can see that on your screen. Lets start with a situation and the noise is really soldiers and times of advance to buy the into the jamalia refugee camp. That it engaged in fis baffles of palestinian fighters strikes in the a
Southwest, another round of heavy rain for portions of north carolina, virginia, West Virginia and some snow, ice breaking out on the back edge of this storm, this all still has to lift through and it will do that in waves, as we get through tonight. Hutch rain so far . Delaware almost a inch and a half. Bala cynwyd has pick up 1. 27 inches and in walling forward and southampton just under a inch and a quarter. Record warmth today, mount pocono and allentown, both broke record with new record high reading tied the record of 63 degrees and temperatures right now are still in the 60 s, in many locations, and that is all about to change, rain continuing to, blast through the area through about 8 00 is there our next lull but another round of it hanging out to the west with dangerous icing in the poconos we will have more on that coming up when we check out our full forecast, now back over to you. Dreary weather served as a fitting backdrop as fallen philadelphia fire fighter was laid to r
Possible and i would note it is under attack today and has been under attack since the enactment by the Supreme Court as well as by individuals who do not favor the advancement of African Americans and other people of color in the country. So, it is good to be here tonight to acknowledge the 50 anniversary and commemorate and acknowledge people in the community who day in and hout u out outsides of the glare of the spotlite work to the advance civil rights and move forward and claim tire rights in our society. So move toog the presentations, as a human rightss commission 2015 hero awards i would like to note all tonight recipient will receive [inaudible] from nancy pulosea and mark [inaudible] and the student receiving awards tonight are receiving financial awards through caryn chi so congratulations in advns to all of you and well move to the presentations themselves. First well deal with award for individual leadership in Voting Rights. The first award is given to faith petric and it