She received her phd from Boston College after teaching for a few years she moved to villanova. That is where she is now a professor. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including most recently sex and the civil war, soldiers, pornography, and the making of american morality. Home Something Like that. That is not right. The diary of a free black woman and philadelphia. Which my scholars just read and discussed, and we all want to know what happened. Sorry. Judie is much more than a academic civil war nerd. Though she is this, which i know because i ran into her family on the memorial day weekend heading to see the graves of black civil war soldiers as the rest of us eight barbecue. She is a devoted public historian having moved from editing to a new digital project, finding families after slavery. This open access database give scholars and students and genealogists a chance to examine thousands of information on lost friends and relatives advertisements that were taken out
Tax breaks to cut medicaid, medicare and other important things. Now we talked to a capitol Hill Reporter on whats ahead this week for congress. Joining us live on the phone is dan litman, he is reporter for politico. Thank you very much for being with us. Thank you for having me come up steve. Can you first walk us through how all of this unfolded from friday into yesterday morning by the president . The president flew up to new jersey on friday afternoon and he basically feels like the criticism from his response is out of bounds. He thinks he has done a good job in responding to this disaster, he is going to puerto rico on tuesday. Maybe his opinion on the situation will change once he sees everything on the ground. So far, he does not want this to be his hurricane katrina. I think you probably saw the Washington Post piece about how they first had a good response for the first couple of days then he had that fourday span where he really did not comment publicly, this was during las
Host kathy grillo is the head of bryson of a policy washington pictures also at Senior Vice President at that cooperation. Shes our guest this week on the communicators. Where are we when it comes to introducing and implementing 5g . Guest we are right at the beginning that we are taking off past. Verizon whats been the First Company in the u. S. To offer commercial product in 2018 and with commercial trials in 11 cities. We are very excited that we look at different aspects of how the spectrum works come have quit the works and well put ourselves in a position to launch a product in 2018. 5g is going to open up a completely new wave of innovation in the market pick is going to give extremely fast feed so you be to use 100 times what you use right now on your smartphone or your tablet. It will also provide low latency which is a fancy way of saying you can have instantaneous Response Time between devices. What does that mean . That means we can change the way we deliver health care, th
This week on q a. Journalist scott greenberger. His book on the life and times of chester a. Arthur. Scott greenberger, your book the unexpected president , who is the most interesting character in the book for you . Think Chester Arthur the most interesting character and the book. It is a story of redemption. He is a guy, his father was a very rigid abolitionist reacher, grew up in that preacher. He, shortly after college was a teacher, became a lawyer, moved to new york. Was involved in a very important case that resolved in the desegregation desegregation of you new york city street cars. He was on this moral path and then he served in the civil war, was quartermaster a quartermaster in the union army during the civil war in new york important jobs an with lots of opportunities. After the war, he became in vault involved in machine politics and in particular, he became close to the new york republican boss, a flamboyant character named Roscoe Conkling. Favoriterthur is my character
Thank you. My fellow americans, we are joined together today in sadness, shock and grief. Last night a gunman opened fire on a large crowd at a Country Music concert in las vegas, nevada. He brutally murdered more than 50 people, and wounded hundreds more. It was an act of pure evil. The fbi and the department of Homeland Security are working closely with local authorities to assist with the investigation, and they will provide updates as to the investigation and how it develops. I want to thank the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police department, and all of the First Responders for their courageous efforts, and for helping to save the lives of so many. The speed with which they acted is miraculous. It prevented further loss of life. To found the shooter so quickly after the first shots were fired is something for which we will always be thankful and grateful. It shows what true professionalism is all about. Hundreds of our fellow citizens are now mourning the sudden loss of a loved one, a pa