Records. But for now blocked congress from seeing them. The president s fiery response to the rulings and the potential impact on the election. Breaking overnight. Tragic accident. Glee star naya rivera presumed dead after a search and now recovery effort. We have to go where the boat was found initially and work our way out from there. Just ahead, the new video of rivera setting off on a boat with her young son. Fay on the way. A Tropical Storm warning in new york city and other parts of the northeast as a powerful system bears down trenching rains and strong winds for tens of millions on the east coast. While a scorching heat wave intensifies nationwide. Well have the full forecast coming up. All that plus, the king holds court. Lebron james the nbas biggest star enters the leagues bubble overnight. Basketballs return kicking into high gear. Today, friday, july 10th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller pla
Good evening. Im harold, the chair of the lincoln forum. It is time now for our main event. I am proud to welcome back to the forum two of my favorite people, not only as friends, but as colleagues in the civil war field. Gary gallagher and joan waugh. Individually and as a team, they are superlative interpreters of the civil war era who combine military history and social and cultural history and bring to their scholarship and engagement with readers and audiences great knowledge, sophistication, and style. As your packets enumerate, they have individually and together and live into the literature over the years. Gary gallagher is a Professor Emeritus in the history of the American Civil War at the university of virginia and he is former director of the now civil war Sector Center there. You are all familiar with his major works, the confederate war, the union war, lee and his generals in war and memory. He is also, like many in this room, an aficionado, but more, an expert on civil w
Call michael talks about his book the war for the common soldier how men throught, fought, and survived in civil war armies. This is one hour. It is my honor and pleasure to introduce somebody who at this point probably needs very little introduction to most of you. Peter carmichael is a director of the Civil War Institute and the robert c professor of civil war professors at gettysburg college. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and essays as well as several books including one published in 1998 and the lost generation Young Virginians in peace, war, and reunion published by unc press in 2005. His most recent book, the war for the common soldier how men throught, fought, and survived in civil war armies was published by unc just last year in 2018. And he was a recent recipient of the 2018 civil war book award from the new York Military affairs symposium. Please welcome peter carmichael. [ applause ] thank you. I am not dehydrated. I just have as you can tell a scratchy th
trace: over the years the cold war thought and the shelters gathered dust. vladimir putin was quietly coming up with a plan, according to a former intel official who literally wrote the book on putin s destructive plots. sandra: she has been sounding the warning long before president biden said putin s nuclear threats were no joke, and she says there is something the president still does not understand about the russian strong man s mindset. brand-new at 2:00, she is here to tell us about it live. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two on this friday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. great to see you, trace gallagher in for john roberts. we ll get to president biden s nuclear warning ahead, but top the hour with the issue at the top of voter s minds, their money, and it is a fox news alert. sandra: we are watching the dow at this hour, entering its final hours of trading for the day and the week, and the dow is off about 600 points, falling to it
tonight s event. we have roger lowenstein. he s read in numerous critically acclaimed books including the new york times bestseller buffett when genius failed and the end of wall street all which we do have available for sale if you want to get signed at the end of the presentation, yes, three children and lives with his wife judy sloven in cambridge, massachusetts and tenants harbor, maine, please give a round round of applause for rogers thanks so much. it s great to see you here. it s great to be here where i lived in the mid-1980s when this tour was across the street, but was a haven for book lovers in a town where some people prefer to go to the beach now and then and it obviously the store has thrived so it s great to see all of you here. this book is is about the civil war as you probably know and the first point i want to make is really the main point of the book about the the tremendous financial burden that lincoln and his treasury salmon chase took on to finances w