York. A look at the Civil Rights Movement in new york. Greetings. With the book of Historical Society as of today the brooklyn Historical Society is the new center for brooklyn history i am marsha eli i wanted to welcome you all and say that those of you that have enjoyed the Public Program at this one. We will keep presenting about the issues of our times. In the history that needs to be told more freely. Visit our programs page at the center for brooklyn history website. It is such a pleasure to be partnering with the brooklyn book festival on this. A long history of yankee racism. I have unfortunate news that one of our speakers have a sudden family emergency this morning. He will not be with us today. It is my pleasure to introduce to scholars who have done an enormous amount of work to correct a misguided narrative about racism in the north i urge you to buy their book by clicking on the buy bulk button and the books well also continue to be for sale on the festival website afterw
Brooklyn Historical Society a cultural hub for civic dialogue for over 150 years. The Washington Post right professor at Boston College and then with modern conservativism. And with that coalition of the h century. And then the prevalence of sexism and the quality for the civil war. And then they would be persuade persuaded. I am really excited to be here but first woman to share your questions for heather and in the q a box that as a whole the last about an hour. Now its my great pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson author of six books of american politics and writer of the newsletters. Welcome heather. Im here. Trying to unmute myself also first of all thank you to brooklyn Historical Society but also to say im incredibly excited about this because the first time joann and i do her own thing to gather i asked her not only my but the talk about her new book as well but also how the past speaks to the current moment and whats going on in american politics today. We will talk ab
Conversation. And the manager programs here at the Brooklyn Historical society we wish you we can welcome you to our physical location we have the privilege of welcome you to our virtual programming and we look forward to have you join us for more in the coming weeks. Before we get to tonights program he went to share what we have coming up and look forward to. And next week we will be hosting the former new York State Attorney general candidate and they will be exploring the connection between big money and its impact on democracy august 11. The following week we will host a conversation discussing and exploration of the recent history of the Republican Party and america modern conservativism. Were also proud to partner on the upcoming series women in power after the 19th amendment kicking off august 18 the 100 anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. And then we will discuss issues pertaining to bodies of women throughout time. And we will host more virtual programs as
Cox richardson about her new book, how the south won the civil war, the continuing fight for the soul of america. And im a professor of history at yale university. And i will have a discussion with heather about her book and this is brought to you by the Community Outreach for over 150 years and thats some real history there. Now, on to heathers book. Her book has gotten a lot of critical praise. For example, tthe Washington Post writes, Heather Cox Richardson of Boston College describes goldwaters crusade in her masterful book. Perhaps the most important Political Coalition of the 20th century and Publishers Weekly says, though richardson underemphasizes the prevalence of racism, sexism and unequality of other parts of the country during the civil war she marshals more for the books title. Conservatives will cry foul, but critics will be persuaded. And first, i want to invite those of you out in the world listening to share your questions for heather, you can do that, typing in the a
And it would obviously be fairly strong gains the week after the weakness we saw in the Broader Markets last week. Not a lot of individual news this morning, jim. But always curious as to what caught your attention. Oil at 40 makes people feel, wait a second, maybe the economy is not so bad. Maybe thats the v. We have of course an apple price target boost a couple of Companies Reported that were not disastrous thats regarded as being positive and the day traders, they dont stop at one point today, were going to have to talk about them because of a tragic instance that happened. Ive been seeing that in my twitter feed as well i think cnbc has done some reporting on that in terms of robin hood very unfortunate and well talk about that and well talk about your friend who i know you follow closely, but back to the Broader Market and back to something we spent a lot of time talking about over these last few years which is china trade. Bloomberg is reporting that they will accelerate its agr