At cspan. Org history. Tting heh three great good evening and welcome to the Atlanta History Center. Unclear family Vice President of the history center. Im here tonight with three great scholars and im very excited to have here at the Atlanta History Center tonight. Fitzhugh brundage and scotty nelson. Many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the american south. It just came out a couple weeks ago so we are very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. Each are professors of history. Each have different areas of expertise so we have a lot of ground to cover tonight. And i will briefly introduce them and then we will jump in and fix is on the end and the editor of this wonderful bun. Is a professor of history at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. So, welcome from North Carolina. Appreciate you being here. Sitting next to his john who teaches in American History at the university of florida and drove up from gainesville to join us. We are grateful
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. Tonight is the last night of. Barack obamas Summer Vacation and tomorrow when we returns to the white house hell be dealing with a threat his defense secretary says is, beyond anything weve seen, a threat thats been on vivid display while the president has been away. The threat chuck hagels referring to is the Islamic State in iraq and syria, isis. In the two weeks since mr. Obama started his vacation, u. S. Drones and fighter jets have conducted at least 94 air strikes in northern iraq. And this week, of course, isis claimed responsibility for the beheading of American Photo journalist james foley and promised that other westerners theyre holding captive are next. We have two reports tonight beginning with Major Garrett who is with the president in marthas vineyard. Major, lets talk strategy. The president has both a warweary public and reluctant congress to deal with. How that will shape hi
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. Tonight is the last night of. Barack obamas Summer Vacation and tomorrow when we returns to the white house hell be dealing with a threat his defense secretary says is, beyond anything weve seen, a threat thats been on vivid display while the president has been away. The threat chuck hagels referring to is the Islamic State in iraq and syria isis. In the two weeks since mr. Obama started his vacation, u. S. Drones and fighter jets have conducted at least 94 air strikes in northern iraq. And this week, of course, isis claimed responsibility for the beheading of American Photo journalist james foley and promised that other westerners theyre holding captive are next. We have two reports tonight beginning with Major Garrett who is with the president in marthas vineyard. Major, lets talk strategy. The president has both a warweary public and reluctant congress to deal with. How that will shape his
Agency slams the international communitys slow response. And france looks to the right with the National Front coming first and second in local elections. He was one of the 20th centurys greatest ashun leaders, a man singapore people call their founding father and lee kuan yew widely credited with transforming singapore from a small port city into a financial centersent died at age 91 and criticize for being undemocratic and authoritarian and Nicole Johnston looks at his life and legacy. Reporter singapore as the world knows it might not have existed and the fourth generation sin pore saw his home land occupied first by the british then the japanese and training as a lawyer in britain he was Prime Minister this 1959 a post he would hold for 31 years, despite a ruthless style of politics lee was no independence leader and singapore became independent against its will and kicked out of malaysia in 1965 against a back drop of racial tension, at the time a fearful lee contemplated a bleak
Matthew Walsh-Hussey competed at last month's Irish Olympic Trials, placing 3rd in the 50 back and 4th in the 100 back with lifetime bests in both events.