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Don you are welcome. [applause] narrator you are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Like us on facebook at cspan history. Week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next, a visit to the National Museum of american and jewish history for a tour of their exhibition, tracing the history of jewish people in america. Present day. The in the second of a twopart visit, we pick up a story in the 1880s, when an era of Mass Immigrat...

See big waves of immigrants coming to america. They included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. Coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is sort of the archetype of the arrival story. People were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places you would not think of like galveston, texas, and california as well. We have on display a number of the types of documents immigrants would have needed when coming into these ports. Everything...

Have more men could go overseas. She worked in washington, d. C. Where she worked as a payroll person. In the 1920s, the fears of immigrants which had been boiling during the time of the great migration to america started to come to a head and eventually leading to the johnson reed act of 1984 which effectively ended immigration by ins instituting quotas. This would of course become a very difficult thing, an obstacle ten years later when a lot of European Jews could have used another safe harbo...

Museum of american and jewish history for a tour of their exhibition, tracing the history of jewish people in america. In the second exhibit, we pick up a story in the 1880s, when an era rock thousands to east brought thousands of immigrants to eastern from Eastern Europe every year. We started to see big waves of immigrants coming to america. They included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. Coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is the ...

Antisemitism and the protocols of zion, this was a fraudulent document purportedly outlining a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. It was published during the 1920s. In the 1930s, there was a sort of cultural flourishing in america despite the depression. A lot of really rich artistic activity and so in this area, we look at the rise of the movies in the 1930s, as well as yiddish theatre. We look at the wpa that supported artists in the 1930s. We also look at the political situation in ame...

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...

His book is called the envoy from kabul to the white house my journey through a turbulent world. I wanted to wait not to write it immediately after i left, because i want it to reflect, to be able to talk to some of the colleges who had other responsibilities and to do it in a deliberate way. And not to settle scores but to do a thur row, objective piece of work. Because my background, although ive done a lot of policy, as a scholar, an analyst, i used to teach at columbia university, my first j...

Blackhawk was shot down. Yes. You know . And the blackhawk helicopter. And there was, hes a very celebrated war reporter by the name of paul watson who took a photograph of Sergeant Cleveland who was the american serviceman who was killed and being dragged through the streets. Right, through the streets. Whose body was desecrated. And paul watson took these photographs, and they blew up all over the world. For them. Its also arguable that because of the International Reaction to those photograph...

Ambassador to afghanistan. His book is called the envoy from kabul to the white house my journey through a turbulent world. I wanted to wait not to write it immediately after i left, because i want it to reflect, to be able to talk to some of the colleges who had other responsibilities and to do it in a deliberate way. And not to settle scores but to do a thur row, objective piece of work. Because my background, although ive done a lot of policy, as a scholar, an analyst, i used to teach at colu...

Tell us about it. Yes. So during the american presence in somalia around 1993, the blackhawk was shot down. Yes. You know . And the blackhawk helicopter. And there was, hes a very celebrated war reporter by the name of paul watson who took a photograph of Sergeant Cleveland who was the american serviceman who was killed and being dragged through the streets. Right, through the streets. Whose body was desecrated. And paul watson took these photographs, and they blew up all over the world. And he ...