time one of them is dr william starkey he does research about race in the south at the university of north carolina at chapel hill very clearly there are some roots of american economic wealth that definitely originated on the plantation and through the institution of slavery but also slavery was actually really innovative to the american capitalist system in terms of developing financial networks in terms of accounting practices scientific marriage meant to increase worker productivity a lot of those things are rooted in the system of incitement. back at the farm fred burgess torn about the issue i wish it had never happened. i think a lot of fight would been much better everywhere had that not happened but never on the sly and none of the black people who live around here now were ever a slight i may have had an abscess toure's. that were why but that's 150 years in the past. no matter how far in the past the traces of enslavement will forever remain a part of the american history. let's pick up on some of the points william stuckey made in that report thanks for joining us a lot of german corpor

. >>> our second presenter is lucas kelley, a phd candidate at the university of north carolina chapel hill. he completed his undergraduate degree in history at central college and his ma in history at virginia tech. he is the maynard adams fellow for carolina public humanity university of north carolina. he has made numerous presentations at conferences in virginia louisiana north carolina and the united kingdom. he currently has papers accepted for conferences at carter university and for the annual meeting of the seven historical association. he has published two articles in the east journal of tennessee history, a divided state in a divided nation, east that's support of the union and the recession crisis in 1861 and the noblest enterprise of modern times, robert y hands 1936 address to the knoxville convention which was published in 2016. he also published an article called ardent nola fire and a gradual emancipator, the paradox of virginia gov. john floyd published in 2016. if this seems familiar you may remember that he was a student assistant in the fall of 2014. >>> thank you

he's an instructor at the university of north carolina school of media and urnalism and a contributor to public radio's "american homefront" project. we s down at an empty lectur hall at u.n.c. chapel hill. >> well, north carolina is growing. there ara couple cities in north carolina that are growing hugely. one of them is the raleigh wake county area, and the other is e charlotte area. they're both among the top growing metro areas in the country. and as people are moving in, those areaarare becoming, first, younger; second, more educated because these are, in a lot of cases, highly educated tech jobs that people are coming here to fill and as these areas sprawl magnificently, it's becoming so, when you hear a lot of electoral pundits saying that the election is going to be determined by the suburban mom or the suburban family, we have a lot of those suburbs springing up, you know, seemingly every day in north carolina. >> sreenivasan: there have also hebeen a lot of stories in past couple of years looking ati north caroliunfavorable lirot. and when it comes to w hasvo access tng, ho

well for more on this we can now bring in monk gruber and he's a professor at the university of north carolina thanks for joining us mark let's start here the russian representative as we have said we're on the brink of a new arms race is that an inevitability what do you make of it. i don't think it's an inevitability but it's certainly something that is beginning to under unfold in front of us. i you know i think that the united states believes that it did observe russia testing a cruise missile which it identifies with that it calls 9 m. 79. that has greater than 500 kilometers range the united states believes it has the intelligence evidence. it shows to terminate the treaty rather than further pursued diplomatic process to resolve this. united states never responded to russia's complaints about the mark or you want to press launch or in what i think is even more dangerous than the march quarter one launcher is the aegis combat system that it's attached to ready i think with the demise of the i n f treaty we are. in for a rapid very fast escalation of the arms race with the united states p

functioning democracy of any established democracy andrew rannells a professor at the university of north carolina helped develop the standards used to measure election quality around the world they using computerized maps to literally draw lines around. one way streets and an tiny little houses in farm country you can pick out every house you want to be in a district what you're doing is you're just making sure your party can almost never lose that district so the real contest is not in the general election but in the primary contest where candidates vying to be the nominee of the party favored by the gerrymandering when you create safe seats the democrats appealed to the extremes of the democratic party republicans its appeal to the extremes the republican party if districts required you to appeal to the moderate center then we would see very different type of republicans being elected but when you draw a district that relies upon the primary then they're going to rally the faithful with dog whistles where the racism with homophobia with behavior is that create faithfulness about the mexican com

functioning democracy of any established democracy andrew rannells a professor at the university of north carolina helped develop the standards used to measure election quality around the world they using computerized maps to literally draw lines around. one way streets and an tiny little houses in farm country you can pick out every house you want to be in a district what you're doing is you're just making sure your party can almost never lose that district so the real contest is not in the general election but in the primary contest where candidates vying to be the nominee of the party favored by the gerrymandering when you create safe seats the democrats appealed to the extremes of the democratic party republicans its appeal to the extremes the republican party if districts required you to appeal to the moderate center then we would see very different type of republicans being elected but when you draw a district that relies upon the primary then they're going to rally the faithful with dog whistles with racism with homophobia with behaviors that create fearful. it's about the other the mexican

well functioning democracy of any establish democracy andrew rannells a professor at the university of north carolina helped develop the standards used to measure election quality around the world they using computerized maps to literally draw lines around. one way streets and an tiny little houses in farm country you can pick out every house you want to be in a district what you're doing is you're just making sure your party can almost never lose that district so the real contest is not in the general election but in the primary contest where candidates vying to be the nominee of the party favored by the gerrymandering when you create safe seats the democrats appealed to the extremes of the democratic party republicans its appeal to the extremes the republican party if districts required you to appeal to the moderate center then we would see very different type of republicans being elected but when you draw a district that relies upon the primary then they're going to rally the faithful with dog whistles with racism with homophobia with behaviors that create fearful. it's about the other the mexican

james went through the university of north carolina in three years. he was first in his class in mathematics and latin. his father was surveyor, sometimes in cahoots with andrew jackson, and that was the tie of the family to the the jacksonian cause. but james was asked on his 50th birthday about his faith in god, and he did not denounce his l n leanings toward a more is secular view. so i'm not surprised at that, but what i would say about these different religious groups that came to america and are yet in the immigrant stages, be it new york or wherever, these people came for land and land is their religion. this is their hope. when they spoke of being free, it went they would not have a master. we did not change the title of the labor laws until the 1880s. they were known as master and servant laws. so one of the overriding spiritual things about immigration at that time and i think of the people who came to the country for freedom. it meant land. and it meant land, they were not interested in banks. not all were free. polk created a subdivision ar

he is stellar for the public humanities carolina public humanities university of north carolina. he has main numerous presentations at conferences in virginia. he currently has papers or conferences at his published two articles in east tennessee history. divided stay in the divided nation and exploration of supportive the union. this is published in 2013. and the noble's enterprise of modern times robert haynes, 1936 addressed to the knoxville conventions which was published in 2016. they also published an article in historian title gradual emancipator. the paradox of john floyd. that was published in 2016. does mr. kelly seem familiar to any of you? you may river he was a student assistant at east tennessee. >> thank you for the introduction. i appreciated. happy to be here. >> is inauguration day. is on the u.s. capital and address and press the nation. outgoing president john tyler had a resolution. they bank casting their eyes. his address at only cheered an exception, but he used it to articulate for the nation. is a population has expanded the union has been cemented and s

north carolina. heels, these days they go backward in tar heel state, leah church a january of university of north carolinawnba before she becomes a senior, maybe the nba, knicks don't have anybody that is hit 3s from the front let alone the back. she is state record holder in free throws and 3 pointures, and legend has it she has kill three classmates playing beer pong, they all died of natty causes. see what i did there. she has 3 million views on line. partly because impressive feat. nice to see someone looking beside the guards not watching jeffrey epstein -- what? >> topic 4. 4. update on guns n'roses, dropped lawsuit against a colorado brewing company, that was making a beer called guns and rose. all it takes is just a little patience. we're just getting warmed up withs puns, by the time i am didn't you will want a civil war, they sued oscar blews brewery in may, trying to convince people they were hanging with more brownstone but acts aley lores told him his odds of winnings were one in a million, you are crazy, if you get to the ring, in the end they decided to live and lit die. last thing that i w

university of tennessee press. she is currently working on a biography of general george be published will by the university of north carolina of north carolina in the civil war america series. as i mentioned, she is a veteran faculty member here. many of you have been on her battlefield tours, which are outstanding, largely because she cut her teeth as a young historian -- seasonal -- here at gettysburg, for nine years. for nine years. so it is my pleasure to welcome speakingy, who will be about her book on the creation of the gettysburg national park. jen murray. [applause] peter: go get 'em. murray: thank you, pete, for that very kind introduction. good morning, everybody. can you hear me ok? you are more excited than my 8:00 a.m. westerns of class -- western civ. class. happy father's day. i help my dad is watching this back in maryland. withsuper excited to be you this morning and talk to you about my book. as pete mentioned, it is a history of the gettysburg national military park, the gettysburg battlefield. traditionally, when i do this talk, it is more roundtable at other venues. i asked people, "how many of you hav

and ambition in the civil war south that was his dissertation done some time ago at the university of north carolina, william barney was there . >> another book he edited was weird in the war, stories from the civil war ragged edge. then there are other things he has engaged in a lot of digital projects many of his graduate students have worked on these projects as well. my favorite of all the digital projects titled private voices the corpus of american civil war letters, many of the letters and private voices come from soldiers who were either semi literate or illiterate and best of all is that all the letters are transcribed and private voices, fantastic digital project >> today he will speak with us on the language of the common soldier. let me will come steve barry. [ applause ] sex thank you all so much i am delighted to be here thank you pete for that generous introduction. as pete mentioned, i specialize in civil war studies from the university of georgia and lately i must more involved in the running of the centralized history . >> 1/8 of the arable world depending on estimate so you have t

university of georgia, he scholar,nly a prolific he has written or edited six books. my favorite is all that makes a ambition, and the civil war south,"'s dissertation at the university of north carolina. bardi was still teaching at north carolina. edited is a he fantastic book called "we're doing the war." , he iss another thing engaged in a lot of digital projects and has his graduate students working on his projects as well. my favorite of all the digital projects is titled "private voices: the corpus of american civil war letters," and many of the letters come from soldiers who were either semi-literate or illiterate. all the letters are transcribed. you don't have to sauce through the handwriting so much. and it is a fantastic digital project. going toephen berry is speak to us on the language of common soldiers. let me welcome steve barry. [applause] thank you also much. i am delighted to be here. thanks, pete, for that generous introduction. mentioned, i'm stephen berry from the university of georgia, where i specialize in civil war studies, but lately i am more involved in the running of our center for virtual history, which specializes in digital projects. one of our first pr

the university of north carolina says more than 2,100 newspapers have closed over the last 15 years. jor consolidation of the m embattled printed industry, talking the potential merger between new media enterprises which owns 400 local newspapers and they're attempting to buy gwinnett, publisher of usa to day. any merger would fur her monopolize the already winnowing newspaper market. later this month, another paper added to that local hit list. the vindicator will stop its presses for good on august 31st. this is personal for me. that was my grandparents's hometown paper. manager mark brown joins us now. this is a tough decision. after years of loss, do you ever worry that you failed the community, that you could have done more? >> we have that feeling all the time. we're very concerned about whether we could have made better choices. we've pumped about $23 million into the operation to keep it going. we probably couldn't have done a whole lot more even though we still feel like we should have. >> that's a lot. what, if anything, do you think can save local newspapers going forward.

university. among her many accomplishments use the founding director of the southern oral history program and the julio series pearl professor of history emeritus at the university of north carolina chapel hill she's the author of several books including "like a family: the making of the southern middle cotton world " and the topic of today's discussion sisters and rebels a struggle for the soul of america. next to her is shall be harold is a mississippi native and graduate of the university of southernmost is to be. with a masters degree in education. currently an instructor of mathematics which scares me to death. at pearl river community college in poplar vail her ongoing research on the role of women soldiers in the civil war has been widely published and utilized by the national park service and state historic sites. earlier this year her interest in the topic resulted in her first book "behind the rifle: women soldiers and civil war mississippi " published by university press of mississippi. next to her is doctor john mars lack, native of buffalo new york earned his phd from university of notre dame after serving in the military. he began a distinguished teaching career sin

ambition, and the civil war south, that was his dissertation done sometime ago at the university of north carolina. william varney was his advisor, who is still there, another book that i would highly recommend, that he edited, a fantastic book called, wielding the war stories from the civil war's ragged edge. and, he has many of his students, graduate students working on this project as well. my favorite of all the digital projects, titled, private voices , american civil war letters, many of the letters and private voices come from soldiers who were either semi-literate or illiterate. and what is best of all about the project, all the letters are transcribed, you don't have to fuss with the handwriting so much, and you get private voices, a fantastic digital progress. today, he is going to speak to us on the language of the common soldier. let me welcome, stephen berry . >> thank you all so much, i am delighted to be here, thank you for that very generous introduction. as pete mentioned, i am stephen berry from the university of georgia , i specialize in civil war studies, but i am involved in t

it's published by the university of north carolina press and part of the civil war america series. amy's had a pretty good year, i'd day. sit tight. it will take a while for me to tell you all the awards this important book has received. it's received the 2019 tom watson brown prize from the society of civil war historians. 2019, avery craven award. the john book prize as well. you've cleaned up. congratulations. it's well deserved. this is a very important book. amy is not only a terrific scholar, she's an excellent teacher. you received a teaching award from the university of kentucky. it is my pleasure to introduce to you, amy murrell taylor. [ applause ] >> oh, my goodness. that was kind. thank you. i was thinking back to my junior year in college when i first got thinking about the civil war and studying the civil war. back then i never would have been imagined that i would be invited to speak at a place like gettysburg. this morning i want to begin at the end. at the end of the war in 1865 or to be more specific, the fall of 1865. at a time when the union army is withdrawing

done some time ago at the university of north carolina. william barney was his adviser who is still there, teaching at carolina. another book that i would highly recommend he edited, fantastic book called weirding the war, stories from the civil war's ragged edge. and other things that he has engaged in, a lot of digital projects and has many of his students, graduate students working on projects as well. my favorite of all digital projects titled private voices, the corpus of american civil war letters. many of the letters and private voices come from soldiers who were either semi literate or illiterate, and what's best of all about the project is that all of the letters are transcribed. private voices. fantastic digital project. today steve berry speaks to us on the language of the common soldier. let me welcome steve berry. [ applause ] >> thank you so much. i am delighted to be here. thanks, pete, for that generous introduction. as pete mentioned, stephen berry from university of georgia. i specialize in civil war studies. lately more

that was his dissertation done sometime ago at the university of north carolina, his advisor who is still there, teaching in carolina, another book i would highly recommend, that he edited, the fantastic book called we are doing the war, stories from the civil war ragged edge. other things he's engaged in, a lot of digital projects, he has many of his students graduating as he works on these projects as well. my favorite of his digital projects, titled private voices, the corpus of american civil war letters, many of the letters in private voices, come from soldiers who were either semiliterate or illiterate. and what's best of all about this project, all of the letters are transcribed, you do not have to toss with the handwriting so much. and private voices is a fantastic digital project. today, he will speak to us on the language of the common soldier. let me welcome stephen berry. >> thank you all so much, i'm delighted to be here, thank you for that very generous introduction. as pete mentioned, i am stephen berry where specialize in similar studies. lately i much more involved in the

the report comes within a day of the cdc and the university of north carolina researchers issuing separate reports on e-cigarettes and respiratory dangers. and the woman accused of being the mastermind of the capital one hack attack is staying in jail a judge has ruled that page thompson, a former amazon software engineer, is a flight risk prosecutors say thompson hacked into capital one and at least 30 other organizations. you are up to date that's the news update this hour is kelly, i will send it back to you. >>> coming up, the president ordering american companies to start looking for an alternative to china and calling out fedex, amazon, and ups are down more than 3% right now. and apple is also tanking on that news. tim cook is the president's right now. what does it mean for apple? the shares are down 4.5% today and autos are dropping as china threatens to resume tariffs on that sector. we'll talk about all of it next. and tesla down nearly 4% "the exchange" is back in two. do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommende

and, i should note, that this book, fighting for atlanta published by the university of north carolina press that it, in fact, will be his topic. let me welcome earl hess. >> thank you, peter, very much for that nice, generous introduction. fighting for atlanta, tactics, terrain and trenches in the civil war. that's the topic. the purpose is to understand one of the more important elements that influence the course of operations during the atlanta campaign, which is fort fortifications. field fortifications of the overland campaign of grant and lee in volume three, the petersburg campaign. the atlanta campaign was one of four campaigns in the civil war that heavily, heavily, heavily used fortifications. atlanta, vicksburg in the western theater. a word or two maybe in general about the atlanta campaign for people who may not have that much familiarity with it. very briefly, it is a major, long campaign. 100,000 union troops under william t. sherman divided into three armys, thomas' army of the cumberland, mcpherson's army, until he was killed and then replaced by otis five days later a

war tactic and i should know that this book fighting for atlanta was published by the university of north carolina and will be his topic. we welcome earl hess. [ applause ] >> thank you for the generous introduction. fighting for atlanta to tactics during entrenches in the civil war is the topic. the purpose is to understand one of the more important elements the influences the course of up rations during the atlanta campaign which is the role of field operations. it's a follow-up to a trilogy that i did several years ago for the eastern campaigns, volume 2 of the trilogy covered the overland campaign, the petersburgh campaign and the atlanta campaign is one of four campaigns of the civil war that heavily used fortifications. overland, petersburgh and these, atlanta, vicksburg in the western theater. a word or two maybe in general about the atlanta campaign about people who may not have familiarity with it it was divided into three armies to mcpherson's army of the tennessee until he was killed and then replaced by otis howard five days later. then finally, the third field army under sherman, the

are no safer than traditional cigarettes when it comes to emphysema researchers from the university of north carolina exposes smokers to an enzyme known to cause emphysema you are up to date that's the news update this hour guys, back to you. morgan >> sue, thank you. >>> the markets are selling off right now. the dow is down 345 points right now, but still poised to end the week fractionally higher it's a different story for the s&p and the nasdaq both of those averages are down 1.4% or greater, on pace to close the week lower every sector in the s&p is in the red. coming up, the imf chief economist is going to joins after the break. don't go anywhere. >>> a live shot of jackson hole. this is one of the traditions of this symposium that the kansas ci city fed holds there is the fed chair what a morning he's had, what a month, what yeaa year, what a t, really, as we digest the text from his speech earlier today and talk about what it means for the fed's optics, the way they're going to process data, the way they're going to handle the president and critics of all kinds. steve liesman joins us from th

i want to bring in karen cox, history professor at the university of north carolina at charlotte.p-ed for the "new york times" entitled "what changed in charlottesvil charlottesville." in your opinion, what changed? two years ago we all sat in these seats and said something has to change? >> right. as historians we have long talked about things like confederate monuments as just a historic argument, debates between people who said they want to preserve southern heritage and those who know about its jim crow roots. but in charlottesville, what we saw was white supremacists, white nationalists attaching themselves to a monument. and used that moment of the potential removal of the lee monument in order to issue a siren call to their followers. and in the times since then, it's only increased in violence. >> in the months after charlottesville, a number of polls were done about whether or not to remove confederate memorials. npr, routers, quinnipiac all shows them wanting to keep them in place. you said defending these means honoring slavery and white supremacy. so why do so many peo

university of virginia where he studied under gary gallagher. published his dissertation with the university of north carolina press. the book is entitled "why confederates fought: family and nation in civil war virginia." his most recent book published by harvard entitled "the calculus of violence: how americans fought the civil war" just, again, published in 2018. aaron at lsu is a great place for him, of course, being in baton rouge and not far from new orleans, aaron is a self-proclaimed foodie so he has lots of places to select from down in new orleans, but today he will talk to us about his very important book and a book, i should add, that has received two recent awards, including the jefferson davis award from formerly the museum of the confederacy and now the american civil war museum, i believe, in richmond, of course. let's welcome aaron sheehan-dean. [ applause ] >> good morning. thank you all. i will start by saying happy father's day to everybody in the audience. it is a weird thing to spend today and a sunday morning talking about violence, but that's what we're going to do. so as pete said, my book i

he's the maynard adams fellow for public humanities carolina public humanities university of north carolina. he has made numerous presentations at conferences in virginia, louisiana, north carolina, and the united kingdom. he currently has papers accepted for conferences at cardiff university in wales and annual meeting of southern historical association. he has published two articles in the journal of east tennessee history, a divided state in a divided nation, and exploration of east tennessee support of the union in the secession crisis of 1860, 1861 and that was published in 2013. and the noblest sbemp of modern times robert y. haynes 1936 address to the knoxville convention, which was published in 2016. he has also published an article in the southern historian titled ardent nullifier and gradualer manslaughter pater the paradox of virginia governor john floyd, and that was published in 2016. if mr. kelley seems familiar to any of you, you may remember he was a student assistant at the journal of east tennessee history in the fall of 2014. mr. kelley. >> that you so much for the introd

well functioning democracy of any establish democracy andrew rannells a professor at the university of north carolina helped develop the standards used to measure election quality around the world they using computerized maps to literally draw lines around. one way streets and an tiny little houses in farm country. you can pick out every house you want to be in a district what you're doing is you're just making sure your party can almost never lose that district so the real contest is not in the general election but in the primary contest where candidates vying to be the nominee of the party favored by the gerrymandering when you create safe seats the democrats appealed to the extremes of the democratic party republicans its appeal to the extremes the republican party if districts required you to appeal to the moderate center then we would see very different type of republicans being elected but when you draw a district that relies upon the primary then they're going to rally the faithful with dog whistles with racism with homophobia with behavior is that create fearfulness about the other the mexica

james went to the university of north carolina in three years study. he majored -- i don't think they had majors then but he was first in his class in mathematics and latin. his father was a surveyor sometimes in cahoots with andrew jackson and that was the tie of the family to the jacksonian wa 50th birthday about his faith in god and he did not denounce his leanings toward a more secular view. so i'm not surprised at that, but -- but what i would say about these different religious groups that came to america and are yet in the immigrant stages, the catholics in louisiana, or be it new york, or wherever, these people came for land and land is their religion. this is their hope. when they spoke of being free, it meant they would not have a master. we did not change the title of our labor laws until the 19 -- i'm sorry, the 1880s. they had always been known as master and servant laws. so one of the overriding spiritual things about immigration at that time and the minds i think of the people who came to this country for freedom, it meant land. and the

from the city university of new york graduate center and current willy assistant professor at the university of north carolina in wilmington. and his book also under contract is to organize the sovereign people, democracy and political mobilization in revolutionary pennsylvania. so thanks to all four of you. and we'll start with caitlyn and work our way down. >> great. can everyone hear me okay? okay. well, thank you first to the conference organizers for putting together this really ks sighting schedule. and to mark for organizing our panel today. and all of you, seth, lindsey, david for being here, and all of you coming out early this morning. so i'm just going to give some brief remarks to introduce what my research is about is what i think we'll all do before we jump into questions. so my research has really been informed by the time that i spent working in washington, actually, before i went back to graduate school, which generated a lot of questions for me about how representative government worked, and what made it legitimate. kaitlyn. so what does it mean for government to speak for the people. to wha

university of new york graduate center. is currently an assistant professor at the university of north carolina wilmington. in his book, also under contract, is organized the sovereign people, democracy political mobilization, and revolutionary pest vania. says thank you, to all four of you. we will start with katelyn and work our way down. >>thank you can everyone hear me okay? okay think you first to the conference organizers that put together is really exciting schedule. and mark for organizing our panel today. and all of you, for being here and all of you for coming out early this morning. so, i will give some brief remarks to introduce what my research is about which i think what we will all do before we jump into questions. so, my research has really been informed by the time i spent working in washington, before i went to grad school. back to graduate school they generated a lot of questions for me on how representative government works, and what made it legitimate. what is it mean for government to speak for the people? to what degree should elected officials be bound to public opinion? and how sho

favorite interviewees, scientist who i was reading his notebook that is were digitized by the university of north carolina and what you noticed his most important work always occurred on saturdays, he called saturday morning experiments so as he told me, people ask why i came in to work any other day other than saturday. [laughter] >> he would go and this was experimenter and he would go in to work and on saturdays he said you don't have to be completely rational, do i things that are unfunded, stay with other people's equipment. really, when colleagues were going to get rid of equipment, nbgbokfo, no bloody good but okay for vol -- oliver and it was saturday morningings where he got a key to janitor's closet and invented something called jell-o, allowed us to separate molecules for study. [laughter] >> learn how to work with dna, he was training to be a doctor and he said i'm going to do chemistry and this was seen as him getting off track at the time and he helped pioneer biochemistry, was at the time hybrid and in 50's he becomes geneticists. he learned how to alter genes in animal to study for disease

university. among her many accomplishments use the founding director of the southern oral history program and the julio series pearl professor of history emeritus at the university of north carolinaapel hill she's the author of several books including "like a family: the making of the southern middle cotton world " and the topic of today's discussion sisters and rebels a struggle for the soul of america. next to her is shall be harold is a mississippi native and graduate of the university of southernmost is to be. with a masters degree in education. currently an instructor of mathematics which scares me to death. at pearl river community college in poplar vail her ongoing research on the role of women soldiers in the civil war has been widely published and utilized by the national park service and state historic sites. earlier this year her interest in the topic resulted in her first book "behind the rifle: women soldiers and civil war mississippi " published by university press of mississippi. next to her is doctor john mars lack, native of buffalo new york earned his phd from university of notre dame after serving in the military. he began a distinguished teaching career since

host: the university of north carolina helped us understand the spread of the rural hospital closureith a map from january of 2010 to the present, where those hospital closures are happening. in texas, 20 have closed since 2010. tennessee, 12. alabama, six. missouri, six. kansas, five. mississippi, five, north carolina, five. you also report a state like utah is a bit of an anomaly. they have not had the issue of closing hospitals, not as much as other states. why is that? guest: well, utah is a really good example because it has about 21 rural hospitals. none of them have closed down during the period -- none of them have closed down at all. they are also the most profitable, collectively, those 21 hospitals are the most profitable in the country and they only expanded medicaid last year. the reason utah is doing so well is that about 20 years ago, the hospitals got together and the urban hospitals agreed to share some of the prophets with the rural hospitals. what you have going on in utah is socialism, where the rich urban hospitals are helping the rural hospitals. you have to cre

christian leadership conference, she decided to organize a conference of student activists at shaw university in raleigh, north carolina. that conference is the founding of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, even though she herself was no longer a student. she recognize the importance of education and student activism. she encouraged the student she engaged with to organize from the ground up. she assisted him by leveraging her connections in the various organizations she belong to, especially the naacp, and that enabled her to connect those students with powerful individuals, and so sncc ends up joining forces with the congress of racial equality, core, and those two organizations put together the freedom rides, so you can see the intergenerational connectedness between baker and the students she engaged with. she helped him develop the freedom summer, which was the first voter registration project which attempted to bring national attention to mississippi's racism and physically register black voters who had been intimidated via violence. and she also helped as the students grew into their activism, encou

university of alabama. she is co-author and american icon and coeditor of geographics of girlhood identity in between and give her a hand please. [applause] doctor favors received his phd in north carolina and in maine phd in history from the ohio state university. he is a sister professor of history at clayton state university. give him a hand please michelle purdy is a professor of education and affiliate faculty member of the disciplinary programs in urban studies and the center on urban research and public policy at washington university in st. louis and coeditor of using contemporary perspectives on african-american educational history. give her hand please. [applause] and last but truly not least. heather watkins. in 1961 she was at the greyhound bus to see in jacksonville mississippi at the age of 13 where he was sent in a paddy wagon to mississippi state penitentiary known as the penitentiary and placed on death row. please give him a hand. [applause] i want to panelists to give a five-minute overview of their book, give the name and talk a little bit about it. we will start with ms. adams. >> thank you. and on behalf of my husband who is who is here in my better half in the co-

university of alabama. she is co-author and american icon and coeditor of geographics of girlhood identity in between and give her a hand please. [applause] doctor favors received his phd in north carolina and in maine phd in history from the ohio state university. he is a sister professor of history at clayton state university. give him a hand please michelle purdy is a professor of education and affiliate faculty member of the disciplinary programs in urban studies and the center on urban research and public policy at washington university in st. louis and coeditor of using contemporary perspectives on african-american educational history. give her hand please. [applause] and last but truly not least. heather watkins. in 1961 she was at the greyhound bus to see in jacksonville mississippi at the age of 13 where he was sent in a paddy wagon to mississippi state penitentiary known as the penitentiary and placed on death row. please give him a hand. [applause] i want to panelists to give a five-minute overview of their book, give the name and talk a little bit about it. we will start with ms. adams. >> thank you. and on behalf of my husband who is who is here in my better half in the co-

of you. . >>> authorities say they disrupted a school shooting plot at a north carolina college. paul steber, freshman at high point university carolina was arrested after a tip he had guns in his dorm room. police say a pair of weapons were recovered. he had a plan to shoot up the school and was watching mass shoot tinge videos online. >>> a 2-year-old girl when two temporary walls fell on her at a mall outside of chicago. the child identified as alexandra martinez was with family inside a store in the orlando square mall when the walls measuring eight feet by three feet and weighing 75 pounds struck her. paramedics responded. she was transported to the hospital where she died. >>> a new police partnership authorities say will help keep neighborhoods safe that's raising privacy concerns. more than 400 police departments across the country now partnering with the amazon-owned doorbell camera company ring. police can automatically request videos recorded by homeowners, requests that can be decliebd. privacy advocates fear the program could subject innocent people to law enforcement suspicion. >>> when we come back, the bride-t

of the headlines on the morning newsstand. >>> cbs boston station wbz reports a teenager from boston allegedly planned a shooting at north carolina's high point universityan paul steber was arrested on charges of bringing guns on campus and threatening mass violence. police say another student tipped them off about two guns and ammunition in steber's dorm room. according to court documents, he told police he planned on shooting up the campus. >> and i mean you'd hate to think about what would happen if nobody said something and he was able to go through with whatever he was planning on going through with. >> prosecutors say steber had been watching videos to learn how to carry out a mass shooting. they say he bought the guns because he was upset about possibly not getting into a fraternity. >>> "usa today" reports a second suspicious death at a west virginia v.a. hospital has been ruled a homicide. the fbi and the v.a. a investigating the ten deaths at the louis a. johnson medical center in clarksburg. the bodies of two victims were exhumed and autopsied. their deaths were both ruled homicide by insulin injection. west virginia's senator joe manchin's o

but he returned to north carolina to attend the university of chapel hill. he graduated with first honors in mathematics and the classics. then he went back to tennessee and became a lawyer and politician. he was so closely hey headlined with andrew jackson -- aligned with andrew jackson that he was called young hickory. this was a huge advantage because no one knew first of all when he ran in 1844 who polk was. and but because jackson was the most popular president of his era, being associated with him was a great thing. 1844, polk had become the first dark horse presidential nominee. kind of emerged from the democratic convention in baltimore. to hold the party together, he pledged to serve one term and he stuck to his pledge. polk once wrote in his diary that he's the hardest working man in america. and if he wasn't that, he was certainly the hardest working american president. every waking hour, six days a week, sometimes seven was occupied by public business. sara polk, his wife, his partner in politics and government. they had no children. and this was

situation that not all of the individuals involved in these movements understood. she studied at shaw university in north carolina and graduated valedictorian in 1927. she was active in many organizations. she was part of the naacp. she was in the southern christian leadership conference, served as executive secretary in that organization. recognized the power that the younger population had, if harnessed and given direction. so, as executive secretary, she decided to organize a conference of student activists. that conference is the founding of the student nonviolent coordinating committee. even though she herself was no longer a student, she recognized the importance of education and student activism. she encouraged the students that she engaged with, to organize from the ground up. she assisted them by leveraging her connection to the various organizations she belonged to, especially the naacp. connect enabled her to those students with powerful ends upals and so sncc joining forces in many cases with the congress of racial wally -- racially qualities, and those -- racial equali ties. you can see the generatio

of planning a mass shooting. police arresting 19-year-old paul's temper at high point university in north carolina for allegedly plotting releasing a photo of one of the two weapons allegedly in his possession. he also reportedly had a 9mm handgun. possible new victim as investigators in west virginia try to figure out why some 11 patience have died under suspicious circumstances at a veterans hospital in that state. according to "usa today," retired air force veteran george chasse case has been ruled a homicide. official saying he did not die of natural causes, as the family had originally been told. doug mckelway has more on the suspicious death. >> the hippocratic oath says first do no harm but investigators say what someone did at a va hospital in clarksburg west virginia was murder. potentially as many as 11 patients. suspicion arose last year when authority is as the daughter of 82-year-old army vet felix mcdermott if they could exhume his body. she agreed. the autopsy revealed someone had administered a shot of insulin to his abdomen. mcdermott did not have diabetes. it killed him. >> mr. mcdermott didn't suffer