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Introduce our next speaker, jennifer weber. Jennifer is an associate professor of history at the university of kansas. Where her specialty, no surprise, is the civil war. Her first book was copperheads for those of you who may not have a copy at home or have read it. And this, of course, is about the Antiwar Movement in the north. This was published by Oxford University press in 2006, and actually has a forward by jennifers mentor, james m. Macpherson. So you can tell she comes from a quality line. Her second book is actually geared for children, and this fact has won her a special place in the hearts of many of us in the Lincoln Group who really view the importance of sharing the story of lincoln and his heir, and our nations history with our youngest americans. That story tells the battle of gettysburg and is calle ....
Examines the political climates in the summer of 1864 and explains how lincoln won by a landslide. This is a portion of a symposium hosted by the Lincoln Group of d. C. It is about 50 minutes to read it is about 50 minutes. Good morning. I am pleased to be here this morning and am honored to introduce our next speaker, jennifer weber. Jennifer is an associate professor of history at the university of kansas. Where her specialty, no surprise, is the civil war. Her first book was copperheads for those of you who may not have a copy at home or have read it. And this, of course, is about the Antiwar Movement in the north. This was published by Oxford University press in 2006, and actually has a forward by jennifers mentor, james m. Macpherson. So you can tell she comes from a quality line. Her second book is actually gea ....
Lectured throughout the country. Lincolns era and the politics of the era, and im sure this morning youre going to enjoy her talk. We heard copperheads referenced a lot this morning and this is the expert. Having heard her talk on the subject several years ago, i know youre going to find this a very interesting and useful subject. So ill turn this over to jennifer. [applause] good morning. Thank you very much for coming out, and id like to thank the lincoln group, and karen needles for inviting me today. Its always a pleasure to be in d. C. So, today im going to be talking about the summer of 1864. The summer that lincoln lost the election. 1864 did not start out as a particularly bad year for abraham lincoln. It actually started out reasonably well. The union armies were doing fairly well in the field, which was a key predictor of how the public was going to feel in the north. He did have some movement, politically, from freemont, and freemont supporters but he appeared to be in prett ....
Pelton is live at this Elementary School with more with what this man did. good morning. At this point police dont know who this man is or she is all all affiliated. But it with this caught the man inappropriate touching himself while on campus wednesday afternoon. According to this of a man and the main hallway of the school. The man had his hand down his pants and appear to be touching himself and appropriately. Once the man of st had been spotted he walked off campus and the guardian notified the principle. San Leandro Police come board of the incident yesterday and describes the eight hispanic man between 5855 years old. Theyre asking anyone with information rich to give them a call. We do plan to speak to the principle and the School District to give their response to this concern in the incident. The top u. S. ....
Wash your hands. They dont do it. They think it is a hoax. Anybody thinks this is a hoax should come spend the day with me here. Once again, we begin the show with sound from medical workers on the front lines of the pandemic. Welcome to wednesday. It is mtp daily. The u. S. Is battling a record surge of covid cases. We crossed 3 million cases. Hospitals are being pushed to the brink of capacity, and yet the president is publicly dismissing the warnings and recommendations of his top Infectious Disease experts while also threatening to cut funding to schools if they cannot reopen. It has been a head spinning 24 hours. The u. S. Set another record of confirmed cases at more than 60,000. Hospitalizations hit record levels in arizona, alabama, california, georgia, mississippi, north carolina, nevada, oklahoma, south carolina, tennessee, and texas. The situation in the south continues to deteriorate. Cases are still exploding. Hos ....