Was given at the dedication of a National Cemetery for soldiers killed during the civil war battle. This hourlong talk was part of a conference hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Our first speaker to kick off our conference is martin johnson. He is an associate professor of history at university of miami in ohio, where he teaches courses on Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. He earned his ph. D in 1993 from brown university. He has devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. He is also the author of a number of books. In fact his first two books are on european history. One is on the paris commune. And the other is on the triefis affairs. Very diverse intellectual interest. Unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. Martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. In 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is sponsored by Getty
Was given at the dedication of a National Cemetery for soldiers killed during the civil war battle. This hourlong talk was part of a conference hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Our first speaker to kick off our conference is martin johnson. He is an associate professor of history at university of miami in ohio, where he teaches courses on Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. He earned his ph. D in 1993 from brown university. He has devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. He is also the author of a number of books. In fact his first two books are on european history. One is on the paris commune. And the other is on the triefis affairs. Very diverse intellectual interest. Unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. Martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. In 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is sponsored by Getty
Was given at the dedication of a National Cemetery for soldiers killed during the civil war battle. This hourlong talk was part of a conference hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Our first speaker to kick off our conference is martin johnson. He is an associate professor of history at university of miami in ohio, where he teaches courses on Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. He earned his ph. D in 1993 from brown university. He has devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. He is also the author of a number of books. In fact his first two books are on european history. One is on the paris commune. And the other is on the triefis affairs. Very diverse intellectual interest. Unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. Martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. In 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is sponsored by Getty
With oil. Opec ministers are trying to salvage an agreement on production cuts as saudi officials are conceding they may not get a deal at wednesdays meeting in vienna. Crude now falling below 46 a barrel. Francois fillon clinched the French Republican nomination in a landslide victory. Everyone agrees that they spent less money and more time online. 20 overe sales are up last year. That is what you need to know at this hour. Julie . Julie a editor for energy and commodities joins us. , there have been these bouncing headlines around on not only the opec numbers themselves , but also on russia. What is the latest in terms of progress here . There are a couple of things going on today. And Venezuelan Oil ministers are flying to moscow, where they will attempt to persuade the russian government that they should also join in this deal as the largest producer outside opec and cut action. So for the russians have only offered to cap entries production. The most important intervention we hav
Exchange. Nicole lets bring everybody to speed. The Dow Jones Industrial average 453 points so youre seeing heavy selling, selling across the board, certainly in those economically sensitive areas such as financials and the like, but the lowest point today we were down nearly 540 points. That was during trading. Overnight over 800. So traders now are saiding what happens by the end of the day and while some projecting only 200300 point loss, others are worried about next week. What happens next in the European Union and what janet yellen says next week . Here is a look at the ftse and cac quarante. They closed 8 , german dax 5 . Bringing back to currencies, we saw the uk pound plummet the most ever on record, plummet into the lowist lowest levels in 31 years. A little better but a lot of worries that it could go even further to the downside. I mention the financials, which have exposure to europe and uk in particular. We are watching gold as well. Gold has been a safe haven. Gold is up