Washington post. He is the moderator of pbs weekly Washington Week. Thank you for being here. The impeachment process picks up again today. They will vote on that tomorrow. What are you expecting the House Judiciary Committee to look like . Guest so far, everything is moving on according to plan in the eyes of House Democrats. They feel like Speaker Pelosis timeline was to move this through the committee, have the report this week, and move it to the committee for chairman nadler to come up with the articles of impeachment. What we will see likely as articles on obstruction, abused of power, and youre going to see democrats in the coming days underscore what they believe the House Intelligence Committee has found through these open hearings and depositions. President trump, in their view, abused power, abused the u. S. Government in terms of how he operated. That is the case they are going to make to the American People even as the process plays out on capitol hill. Host not a real sur
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Ace . That should have sounded there is a question mark at the end of it in case it didnt. We are thrilled to have you here on site and thrilled to have you all join us either online or via tv, because we know that these conversations are essential to not only understanding history but understanding our present. Which this speaker absolutely is going to be addressing all of those things. Dr. Akin is an associate professor at tulane university, where he specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and republican of turkey. His book, when the war came home examines the Ottoman Empires catastrophic experience of the First World War and analyzes the impact of the war on the civilian population and was named the 2018 choice award for outstanding academic title. Thes the coeditor of Ottoman Empire middle east 19 18 onlinee 1914 International Encyclopedia of the First World War. A you have not use that as resource yet, you really need to take a look at it. Encyclopedia is spectacular with global co
All right. Today we are talking about u. S. Empire abroad. And im going to start with the question like always. So lets start with a question. So the question for today is why did the u. S. Become a global empire . Why did the u. S. Become a global empire . Why did the u. S. Become a global mpire . Ok. Why did the u. S. Become a global mpire . Ok. Before we get too far. Im going to start with the first slide here. This is a political cartoon from a magazine in 1899. It says school begins. Uncle sam to his new class in civilization. Now, children, youve got to learn these lessons whether you want to or not. But just take a look at the class ahead of you, and remember that in a little while, you will feel as glad to be here as they are. All right. So it might be hard for you to see. But the students are latered, cuba, puerto rico, hawaii and the philippines. And these are supposed to be students that are named for the states that were already part of the United States. And if you will in
Im Chilton Varner and serve as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society. I am pleased to welcome you to the third of four lectures that comprise ourselves or men lecture series. This years series focuses on new perspectives in dissent and the Supreme Court. Begin the evenings program, i am commanded, not asked, im commanded to ask you to turn off your cell phones, tablets, apple watches. Even in silent mode, they can interfere with the sound system here in the courtroom. So thank you for doing that. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, justice sonya sotomayor. She has been and norma slid generous in giving up her time to the society when we call upon her to help us, and i want to thank her for taking time off during a very busy time in the life of the court. Sonya sotomayor was born in the bronx, new york, june 25, 1954. She earned a ba in 1976 from princeton. She earned a jd from yale law school, where she served as an editor of the yale la