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Their president ial campaigns. Your book that came out catholicism and American Freedom chl what was the premise behind it . What did you learn . I wanted to look at how american idea of freedom intersected with catholic global tradition. What i learned moment of conflict and overlap. Conflicts over slavery. Not many catholics were abolitionists, for example, but lots of overlap to rempl the economy. Ideas in the 50s about americanization and intention over issues around sexuality, divorce, a lot of the kind of cultural issues of the last 30 years. More than 90 years ago al smith ran for presi...

Catalysts for investors on the horizon. With fed meetings this week and new tariffs set to go into effect this weekend. Joining us, ian winemore weve been paying close attention to these big trade headlines. How much is this influencing what were seeing on wall street these days i think its overstated as to how much its actually influencing wall street. I think theres two things at this point the first is that theres so much liquidity being pumped into the marketplace by central banks. They Just Announced another round of qe, even though theyre not calling it that. And youve got positioning, w...

At the unite naval academy, but he told me that his retirement failed, that he was no good at it at all. So he is now the distinguished professor at the United States Naval War College in new port, rhode island. He has written several books about the civil war. His books received the lincoln prize and the Abraham Lincoln book award. He also has just or actually done a biography of joe john so. Thats what his was about today. Lets walk joe simons. He was the a man who lacked the moral will to commit troops to battle unless he could be absolutely certain of victory unless the circumstances never...

Tried to get ahead by diminishing those around him. This is part of pamplin historical part symposium called looking at generals we love to hate looking at Controversial Military leaders of the skwar civil war. Today is the 100th anniversary, to the day, that the first u. S. Troops went into line in france. During world war i. [ applause ] i am happy to introduce our next speaker. John j. Hennessey is a public historian and author, currently serving as the chief historian and chief of interpretation at fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National military park. John has worked for the nps for 25 y...

Another update here from our live desk. Another story im watching closely, those fires in Southern California. A lot of firefighters there exhausted in the bay area responding and are head to go the thomas fire in Santa Barbara county where three San Mateo County fire engine strike teams had been deployed and the thomas fire this morning now at 230,000 acres. It is now the fifth largest wildfire in state history and flames are going through the vegetation there that hasnt burned in 100 years near carpinteria. Residents have been ordered to evacuate. We literally jumped into our clothes, grabbe...