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Tvs american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places. Next we visit the National World , War Ii Museum to learn about the uss tang and her crew. A submarine that conducted several recordsetting missions against the japanese in the pacific theater. Seth my name is seth paridon. I am the manager of Research Services here. Right now, we are standing in the uss tang submarine experience. Uss tang was built in 1943 and commissioned in 1944 during the Second World War. She was a vallejo class submarine, which at the time in 1944, was the most modern submarine of the day. From the size, sh...

Historians in arlington, virginia. Professors, authors, and graduate students about the research. This interview is about 20 minutes. Steve as it history professor, you focus on chinese american before and after world war ii. Take us back to this. Brooks you lived under the shadow of the chinese exclusion act, which is a law passed in 1882 that actually surveyed all chinese immigration to the United States. People forget that today the chinese were once looked upon as undesirable, just because of their race. Chineseamericans growing up at were born in they the United States, they could be amou...

This is a 90 minute event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. I am the director of the Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start during the Antiwar Movement here with the United Methodists office, which is donating this room today. The methodists actually hired me right after i came back from vietnam doing my alternative service there with the Mennonite Central Committee in the middle of the war, in the middle of a war zone, helping children le...

Museums and historic places. Next, we traveled to new orleans to visit the National World War Ii Museum and learn about their road to berlin exhibit. This is the first of a twopart program. Mr. Huxen hello, my name is keith huxen, and i am senior director of research and history here at the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. We are standing in the road to berlin exhibit, which opened in december 2014 after years of development. Our mission is to tell the American Experience in world war ii, why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today. The building we are in tells what ...

Up next in the second of a twopart program, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait paintings. In this program we feature the work of Gilbert Stuart. His unfinished portrait of George Washington is the image on the one dollar bill. Dianne hello, i am Dianne Stephens from the National Gallery of art. John is an artist who is well known for his history paintings in america, not as much portraiture. He aspired to be a history painter, then he eventually went to england and spent a couple of years with Benjamin West. West was an amazing figure who welcomed almost every painter t...