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Up next, a visit to the National Museum of American Jewish history in philadelphia to learn about their exhibition, tracing the history of the jewish people in america from 1654 to the present day. This is part one of a twopart program. Welcome to the National Museum of jewishAmerican History. My name is clear pingel, im the associate curator at the exam and im happy to be a tour today. The museum was started in 1976 by one of the five original jewish congregations that date back to the colonial...

Winners, and the fan favorite selected by the public. Watch live on cspan and cspan. Org. Tvsweek American History american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next, a visit to the National Museum of American Jewish history in philadelphia to learn about their exhibition, tracing the history of the jewish people in america from 1654 to the present day. This is part one of a twopart program. Welcome to the National Museum of American History jewishAmerican History. My name is clear p...

Is that all of these people, we can see that most of them are born in africa and thats listed here. Their places of origin and yet their names are european names. In this case theyre french. We also see in the early years a few spanish names as well. And so we know that these people who have these european derived names were not born in africa with those names so that tells us something about that cultural annihilati annihilation. Slave traders often renamed people and its something that continu...

And so right around the same time that that first sugar crop was being granulated, indigo was not really a viable crop anymore. So this plantation transitioned at some point after that by about 1805. It was planted in sugar and it remains planted in sugar till today. Sugar is still a Huge Industry in south louisiana and all around us our historic cane fields still planted in cane that is still sent off to the domino sugar refineries. So three generations in this plantation. Over the course of th...

Dedicating his flag to all the other men who are still missing in action or prisoners of war in vietnam. A lot of times veterans, if they want to come see the things that they left, we are always willing to give them a tour and show them around. It also helps us because we can connect specific names, donors to what they left. We have a big barrel that was left. I think it was left in 2002. I am too young to know what it was. But i have been told that in vietnam they used it as a letrine. An unfo...

In america from 1654 to the present day. This is part one of a twopart program. Claire pingel welcome to the National Museum of jewishAmerican History. My name is claire pingel, im the associate curator at the exam and im happy to be a tour today. The museum was started in 1976 by one of the five original jewish congregations that date back to the colonial period. We shared a building with them for 35 years and open in this location of november of 2010. We are right in the middle of Independence...