Monday, Jan 8

Good morning!

Today we will review the end of Reconstruction period and rise of Rockefellers, Carnegies, Vanderbilts, etc.  Power point

Current Events
In New York, redrawing Flood maps is a game of inches - NYT

Some JFK travellers are still stranded from last week's storm - NYT

Why is it so cold? Climate change may be part of the answer - NYT

Meanwhile in Australia, Heat, Heat, HEAT - NYT

Today in History

• 1815

  The Battle of New Orleans, the last battle in the War of 1812, was fought.

• 1918

  Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace program.

• 1958

  Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.

• 1959

  Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.

• 1964

  President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.

• 1982

  The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."

• 1998

  The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.

• 2011

  Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting outside a grocery store. Six people are fatally wounded, including United States District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police identify the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner.