Todays publication please welcome. Sarah milov. [applause] miz miss ms. Milov thank you so much. It is such a privilege to come and speak at the national archives. The other day, i saw a tweet about todays event, and as a historian, its kind of like having yourself name checked by beyonce. This is the mothership. Thank you so much for coming. My book, the cigarette a political history, seeks to understand tobacco in modern america, not through the lens of big tobacco in the machinations of industry, but through the efforts of Everyday Americans to get the government to intervene on their behalf. Big tobacco is still an important part of the story, but by focusing on other actors, farmers, government officials, politicians, activists, workers and labor unions, the story of tobacco in the 20th century begins to look a lot different than if we were to understand it through the actions of tobacco alone. By taking a wide angled approach, my book suggests that far from being the product of c
On cspan three ondemand on cspan. Org or listen on the go on the cspan radio app. With the Senior Correspondent with the publication executive recently published a piece looking at federal employees were looking at how theyre being affected by covid19 good morning sir. Could you give us an update on where we are with positive cases . We have over 10000 thats growing pretty rapidly a lot around the front lines so their exposure is great and pretty elevated. Weve seen that climb it a pretty rapid rate. The Defense Department has a lot of positive cases, Veterans Affairs and healthcare employees have a lot of cases. The Postal Service is up there theyre up there every day interacting with customers and doing the rounds so that has left a fairly high exposure. We were talking about over 2 million federal employees here. I thats to be expected there would be someul cases. Youre talking say that top lines like thehe dod veterans Postal Service are their concerns there with the federal govern
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And american Political Institutions throughout American History and describes a shift in attitude toward tobacco use. She is a back professor of history. A former fellow of the Virginia Foundation for humanities. She has written on the tobacco and the, ecigarettes, fight to battle climate change. The research describes how Everyday Americans influence government policy. Today is day two of the publication. Lease welcome sarah milov [applause] thank you so much for being here. Honorsuch a treat and an for a historian to come and speak at the National Archives. The other day i saw that the twitter account of the National Archives tweeted out information about this event and i thought as an historian it was kind of namehaving yourself checked by beyonce. This is the mothership so thank you all for coming. Cigarette a political history, seeks to understand tobacco not through the lens of big tobacco and the industry but through the efforts of Everyday Americans to get the government to int
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