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About which greg spoke here a few years ago. His newest book, the subject of todays lecture, native southerners indigenous history from origins to remove. Please give a warm welcome to our friend greg smithereens. Let me begin by acknowledging the Traditional Land owners of this region. Members of the chief them and people. Thank you for that kind introduction, and to graham who organized todays lecture, thank you. Its much appreciated. Its lovely to be back here. At the Virginia Museum of histo...

Dr. Gregory d. Smithers, an associate professor of history at virginia commonwealth university, specializes in native American History. Else the author of several books including an indigenous history of migration, resettlement and identity about which greg spoke here a few years ago. And his newest book and the subject of todays lecture native southerners indigenous history from origins of removal. Please give a warm welcome to our guest speaker, greg smithers. [ applause ] let me first begin b...

To covering congress. Today in the Senate Lawmakers will debate the nomination of eileen cannon to be u. S. District court judge for the Southern District of florida. Votes are expected at noon eastern. Now live to the floor of the senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal master, we honor you for your glory and strength. Your glory fills us with reverence and your str...

7 is giving us that shot in san jose. So when the sun comes up. Weve got you covered, yeah and masks masks masks covering you today because the bad air quality john what expect. Yeah i agree we need those mass today youve been wearing in many ways, but today were going to have significant ash falling from the sky even if you can smell the smoke. So the mask will be very helpful and yes as we make our way through the next hour or so well see eventually what you those skies eventually do take what...

Thank you. The u. S. Ambassador arrives in the u. S. Sorry harboring a degree of skepticism but on the whole what he sees there and what millions of american movie goers saw along with them breaks all the stereotypes about the soviet government of those times we keep experimenting to find ways to increase our efficiency what kind of effect is this that looks different from the rest yesterday even though. It can usually be compared to. The american film might even make the u. S. S. R. Look better...

You can find more information about both of those verifications on our website and you tube channel but one irony our guest identifies in his new book is that britain was once the envy of the world when it came to handling epidemics Contact Tracing was pioneered against cholera in londons soho area and so what can we learn from past pandemics how they transform the world professor Frank Snowdon author of epidemics and society from the black death to the present joins me now via skype from rome i...

Racial expletives after shooting him. The latest tonight in the investigation. Trump versus the generals tonight, what the president s former chief of staff, general john kelly, is saying about the blistering critique of former defense secretary general james mattis. Open for business crowds hitting the casinos as las vegas reopens in a big way, even as cases rise in 19 states. A mural for justice steps away from where george floyd died, we speak to the artists who brought hope to a community in...

And the country mowrnd a man whose death has inspired a movement. We are witnessing it right now. Tonight, we are just steps away from where george floyd died 10 nights ago, as Minneapolis Police officers pressed their knees do into his neck and body. And as we visited with members of the community today, we were struck by how many people now come to this coroner every day to reflect on what happened and to call for change. Today was the first of several services for george floyd, and as he was ...

Tried to celebrate of the belfast good friday agreement from 1988 so perhaps some of these initiatives you seem to be trying to build a center of global and or politics between the s. T. O. P. Nose to Unionist Party to be a rival to the should unfeigned d u p jew or pally. Would you be more amenable now in the present circumstances than perhaps there were a few years ago i think perhaps and i judge that on the evidence of the surge for the Alliance Party the middle ground Party Last Year in the ...

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