They do to continue to promote American History and their work is absolutely invaluable. Our next speaker today is kevin pawlak at antietam, and he has his own battlefield where he oversees the bristol station battlefield and he oversees a civil war hospital area. Kevin is the coauthor of to hazard all the 1862 antietam campaign. Today he will talk about the aftermath of the antietam campaign, it often gets overlooked tying, and set in the larger context, kevin will talk about the Loudoun Valley campaign of 1862. Ladies and gentlemen, kevin pawlak. Well, thank you, chris, for that introduction and thanks to all of you for tuning into our virtual symposium. We hope youll be able to join us next year in 2021 when well be reprising our topic of what was supposed to be this years topic of fallen leaders, but today im going to speak with you about the Loudoun Valley campaign which is a campaign that does not get a lot of study at all in the larger scale of the civil war. I probably wager th
Next, legal and tax historian discusses is both making the modern american fiscal state. Law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation. 1877 to 1929. He explains how and why the United States shifted from generating most of its revenue from aggressive consumption taxes to a more direct and progressive tax on income with the passage of the 16th amendment. The National Archives center for legislative archives posted this event in december 2014. Thank you for attending todays researcher talk. Im richard mcculley, todays top is the last of 2014. A year when weve really been treated to some splendid presentations by some of the centers most significant researchers. That said, we end the year with a bang and todays guest will discuss his significant and timely book, making the modern american fiscal state. Law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation, 1877 to 1929. Published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this talk on january 15th when we host rebecca edwards. Profe
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Something for everyone is awesome. Find your awesome with the Xfinity Stream app. More to stream to every screen. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at ten. Breaking news. Swat Team Investigation that shut down busy i95 for a time tonight. Shots fired but who did it . Im lucy noland. Im iain page. The bullets ended up just missing a woman. Lets get right out to our Shawnette Wilson. Shes live at the scene tonight. Shawnette. Reporter so police tell us the woman who owns the car that was shot at also owns did he lies nightclub this started to unfold around 6 00 oclock this evening. Police dont know if she was the intended target but they say its a possibility. A weigh vacant Apartment Building under construction on the 100 block of Spring Garden turned into a crime scene this evening when Philadelphia Police got a call from three men doing renovations. They were inside the building when they heard three gunshots and they believed that the gunshots came from inside