Politics. Today well be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape. What people now refer to as the liberal consensus of the 1940s and 1950s and determine what actually happened in the main thoroughfare of american politics and the way people are thinking about politics. You also had free readings, all of which in every day dealing the kind of idea of political ideology and all share a set of assumptions that ideas matter. So sort of thinking today how they kind of frame those ideas, and this is the kind of transition class where we move from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and red scare to discussing whats happening in america in the 1940s and 1950s. I assume there are very few questions about this one. Yeah . So is he essentially saying that, like, the political ideology in the imperial age are just kind of not worth it anymore, and focusing on Economic Issues and focusing on the government and just making that one country the best they could possibly be the be
Ahead of election day 2020. At 9 00 a. M. , dr. Howard editorinchief of the journal of the American Medical Association discusses the u. S. Response to covid19. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Camera shootings of africanamericans at the hands of police has caused unrest in the United States for the past few years and has turned into a Major Campaign issue in this years president ial race. Whether it is black lives matter, defund the police or other slogans and movements, how Law Enforcement relates to the communities they protect is on everyones minds these days. Morning,ion to this what is your view of Law Enforcement in your community . We are going to open up regional lines. That means if you are in the eastern or central time zone, you have a telephone number. You are in the mountain and , you have a zones number. And if you are Law Enforcement watching this morning, we want to know what you are seeing and hearing. We have a special line for you. Keep in mind, you c
I want to explain in advance at this in writing, weve examined various disasters from different perspectives, first of all, the psychological and physical problems that jamestown, disaster sermons and responses to fires hurricanes and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the dawn and party and root to california, irish immigrants flaming the potato famine in the ability to create new lives in this country. Disaster tourism, johnston flood of 1889 the impact of the triangle shirt lays factory in new york city and disaster arts that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So today we are discussing david oceans Pulitzer Prizewinning book, polio an american story, you all received questions that i posted and i am really interested in this topic, because i also teach someone are in the 19 fifties and of course that is one so much of this book takes place and i think just looking at polio really reveals so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting though, i wan
Exist and get to unpack them a little bit a little bit and learn about the reality of the experience. I wanted to start first by talking about how this connects to the First World War overall. Its not just america has these myths, but even the sense of how we understand the First World War to begin with, and we think of the kind general narrative that we attached to it, one of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. We already talked about why this war even occurred. But once its underway, it is sort of predominant image and we get that image a lot from popular culture, those are the kind of images i have up here for you, of the idea that this really was just meant and then sent needlessly to their death. I have an example, all quiet on the western front. You are gonna like this image. This is the cover for the first english edition of the novel. Youll recognize that image from something we discussed last class, and last class was with a german war bon
This happy occasion preserves unbroken a convention which began with president to get our roosevelt. The great and the near great have addressed this audience, but tonight we welcome the man whom history will record as behemoth among moral leaders in the hour of greatest need. [applause] i have in mind the rapid succession of communist aggression as millions of people were behind the fire reaching iron curtain. I have been buying the stalemate of the stalemate in korea, the inflation in our homeland which was eating up the savings and traveling the motors of our Free Enterprise economy. Here there is a man trained in lower who would be acclaimed by future generations as the man who laid the foundations of peace. [applause] and more, he is our president whom we love with a deep and abiding affection. [applause] welcome to the Commonwealth Club of california, i am george hammond. Along with the staff at the Commonwealth Club, the staff has helped to put you always online programs. We did