Feldman analysts is artistic portrayals of the American Revolution and civil war. She talks about the influence of paintings, sculptures, in memorials on how history is remembered. The Smithsonian Associates host to this event. Today we are going to look at the American Revolution and civil war, in particular, but a little beyond that. Controversies about the stories we tell. I am going to focus, because it is impossible to cover such an amount of material in one top. Im going to focus in particular on the nations capital, and the public buildings on the mall, which is after all, the centerpiece of american political culture, and our public culture, where people come from all around the world, and the country to participate in government, to learn about government, to understand our heritage. So i thought what is it we say to those people when they come to washington . What have been some of the controversies . What are some of the issues we should be aware of . And what is missing . S
Good morning, im dominic chu. It is your money, your vote. Brian are s Brian Sullivan is live in grand rapids first, the dow implied higher by just around 100 and so points here the dow coming off more than 420 point gain to kick off another month after its worst week since march. The s p 500 also higher by more than a percent just yesterday. We are also watching the treasury side of the equation as well yields holding relatively steady at least for this time being around the world, a sharply higher session overnight in asia with the hang seng and kospi posting near 2 gains. You can see there on the map a very positive day generally speaking for asia. And green also on the european side of things with 2 gains for the cac in france and nearly 2 for the german dax and ftse 100. But back to the campaign trail and the future of the american presidency and congress now in the hands of us, the electorate amid record breaking early voting and key state Supreme Court ruling in texas, the candi
31 was exceptionally important. I spoke to the vice chairman yesterday, and hes really enthused about expanding on a lot of this monetary mumbojumbo. It is an important speech, but the backdrop, you nailed this weeks ago, is the massive case build up in the United Kingdom that the Prime Minister talked about yesterday. Im sorry, the landscape changed yesterday when he went out to march of 2021. Jonathan the outlook for europe gets a little bit worse. The data on the Services Side backing that up. From my perspective for the Federal Reserve, the message they want to send if things get the message they want said, if things get better they want to send, if things get better. Tom how many times will we mention it . Jonathan i lost count. Lisa, will you count it . Lisa no, but im going to let tom know that. Tom 47 times. Lisa there you go, 47 times we mentioned fiscal stimulus. Jonathan just to clear this up for our listeners, our audience worldwide, tom keene has not counted how any times.
To learn about government, understand our heritage, so i thought, what is it we say to those people when they come to washington . What have been some of the controversies . What are some of the issues we should be aware of and what is missing . That is going to be my focus with the Capital Building here, rotunda, and of course the mall which stretches all the way back , down to the Lincoln Memorial. Building Capitol Building with its great paintings by John Trumbull of the American Revolution and at the opposite end of the mall, the Lincoln Memorial commemorating the civil war and Abraham Lincolns role. Also up at the capital and is another littleknown memorial. There was an oped in the Washington Post a couple days ago about this memorial, the ulysses s. Grant memorial, which is there at the foot of the Capitol Building. It and the Lincoln Memorial were dedicated in 1922, the same year, yet they represent two different approaches to telling the story of america and the civil war. Of
Morning for russia for me in the world new center today im kevin 0 in with this hours update for you 1st off the e. U. In talks the now with an american pharmaceutical giant about trying to secure enough doses of an antiviral drug as license to treat covert 19 its because the u. S. Government earlier swooped in and bought up the entire Global Supply of rum there severe stockpiling 3 months worth leaving nothing left for anyone else that spark worldwide anger and alarm and it leaves countries vulnerable and in danger and lives to lets get latest on this live to our correspondent in paris shala do bensky morning charlotte was going on here then so so much for the share and share alike attitude not what is the u. S. Governments move signal to their european friends. Well the e. U. Another kind. Trees across the world have been left scrambling in the wake of this announcement that the u. S. Essentially brought up the entire world supply of this key antiviral drug in the fight against code