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Despite urgent warnings, people are traveling this holiday week at the highest levels since march, more than 1 million flying in just 1 day tonight the parts of the country most at risk as hospitals see more Record Numbers. The search for solutions. How to keep schools open safely. Why some are succeeding even as the pandemic grows. The Big New Recall by gm, almost 6 million vehicles could be on the road with dangerous airbags. Which models are affected and holiday displays for our times, my rep...

Jim good afternoon. And i say that with some trepidation, because our audience is national and international. So, good morning to some of you and good evening to some of you. I am jim grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association. And this is an initial experiment in something that we are likely to call history behind the headlines. The aha considers Historical Context and perspective essential to decisionmaking in public culture and especially in all aspects of public ...

The aggressive removal of protesters early today starts right now good Tuesday Morning im phillip mena america has gone from coronavirus lockdowns to city wide curfews protesters are demanding Justice Police custody during the day most of these have been peaceful with diverse groups coming together an emotional moment caught on camera as the top member of the force embracing with protesters. Police chief stepped into the crowd to diffuse the situation meanwhile in seattle, protesters and officer...

Celebrate these wonderful awards. In the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around, and probably among the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than they ceremony since zoom is not a great place to exchange awards and the like. So were going to have a series of conversations with our four winners, and then ill when w...

It is my pleasure to introduce our keynote session entitled ask the historian, Alexander Hamilton. Our speaker, historian joanne freeman. Dr. Freeman is a professor of history at yale university. She specializes in the American Revolutionary period and Early National american politics and culture. She is the author of several influential Award Winning books. I will mention just two of them. Affairs of honor, National Politics in the republic, 2001. Most recently, field of blood, congressional vi...

[inaudible conversations] thank you all for joining us this evening. Im gavin kleespies, director of programs and communications for the massachusetts historical society. Tonight on the very eve of the 250 anniversary of the boston massacre we will hear from professor serena zabin on a great new book the boston massacre a Family History. As a regular guests know, we very quickly pull together small exhibition from our collection that highlights the materials we have within our holdings that illu...

Readers. [inaudible conversations] okay. Thank you all for joining us. Im Gavin Kleespies for the massachusetts historic al society. Tonight on the very eve of the 250th anniversary of the boston massacre well hear from professor serena zabin on her book, the boston massacre, Family History. We very frequently pull together a small exhibition from our collection that highlights some material we have within our holdings that illuminate the evenings discussion. Today we have an entire exhibition, ...

Okay thank you all for joining us this evening tonight on the very eve of the children 50th anniversary of the boston massacre we will hear from professor serena with a great new book the boston massacre, Family History. As a regular guest notes we pull together small exhibition from our collection that highlights the material we have within our holdings that eliminates the discussion today we have an entire exhibition. We did not need a small exhibition this time. That only to have a small exhi...

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