President ial biographies. American history tv airs on cspan 3 every weekend telling the american story through events, interviews, and visits to historic locations. This month American History tv is in primetime to introduce you to programs you could see every weekend on cspan 3. Our features include lectures and history, visits to College Classrooms across the country, to hear american artifacts takes a look at the treasures at u. S. Historic sites, and archives. Real america revealing the 20th century through archival films and newsreels. The civil war where you hear about the people who shape the civil war in reconstruction, and the presidency focuses on u. S. President s and first ladies to learn about their politics, policies, and legacies. All this month in primetime and every weekend on American History tv on cspan 3. Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the National Park service. Tomorrow night we bring you a number of National Park service tours from our american artifacts
Substantive day. Im so excited to introduce bill of rights by introducing you to a mac sent new interactive tool for constitution of center launched on Constitution Day and is now thrilled to distribute to every student in america from 1880s. I want all of you in our great cspan viewers to follow along with me as i show you this remarkable nonpartisan tool and tell you what it can do and also the perfect introduction to her first panel about the relationship between the magna carta. It is an exciting project between three great organizations. The federalist society, the American Constitution Society and the College Board that has made this a centerpiece in ap history government exams. What theyve done with the help of our great partners is to ask the leading scholars in america from every perspective, liberal and conservative and everywhere in between to write about every clause of the constitution and what they disagree about. You can be confident when you read the statement about wha
Challenge misconceptions about muslims. Amer is a palestinian, born and raised in kuwait. His family fled the country in the leadup to the persian gulf war. We lost everything overnight, banks were shut down everything gone. And thats when we discovered that my mom has been saving money for many years. You know, thats when i found out my mothers a gangster. The family then settled in houston, texas where he picked up another language. Which is really great because im brown and i speak spanish, so if anything breaks out i can camouflage at any moment in time. I mean every arab needs an exit strategy nowadays. Hes toured the world, traveling for a long time without a u. S. Passport. Amer performed for u. S. Troops, pre and post 9 11, but it took him 20 years to become an american citizen. 20 years is a mighty long time his biography is the basis for many of his jokes. Can i have your passport please . Of course i give him my travel document. Hes like, thats good, yeah. He opens it up, he
His family fled the country in the leadup to the persian gulf war. We lost everything overnight, banks were shut down everything gone. And thats when we discovered that my mom has been saving money for many years. You know, thats when i found out my mothers a gangster. The family then settled in houston, texas where he picked up another language. Which is really great because im brown and i speak spanish, so if anything breaks out i can camouflage at any moment in time. I mean every arab needs an exit strategy nowadays. Hes toured the world, traveling for a long time without a u. S. Passport. Amer performed for u. S. Troops, pre and post 9 11, but it took him 20 years to become an american citizen. 20 years is a mighty long time his biography is the basis for many of his jokes. Can i have your passport please . Of course i give him my travel document. Hes like, thats good, yeah. He opens it up, hes like oh no, says here its not a passport. I spoke to mo amer at the Gotham Comedy Club i
Nope but before i give you the answer, one more question. Where was americas first thanksgiving celebrated . Was it on plymouth not Plymouth Hill or Something Like that, on the rock . Plymouth rock. [ laughs ] i think its plymouth or somewhere in massachusetts. Plymouth. Plymouth, massachusetts. Yes, we usually learn in school that the pilgrims celebrated the first thanksgiving in massachusetts in 1621. But the spanish beat them by more than 50 years. And that bring us back to our first question whats americas oldest city . The answer is found in sunny florida, at the city of st. Augustine. And thats where kara franker is. Shes a travel blogger. Hi hi. On september 8th, st. Augustine celebrated its 450th anniversary, making it older than any permanent settlement on the u. S. Mainland. But most people dont know that. Why not . Most people dont realize that st. Augustine is the oldest city because we learn british and english traditions in school. So we learn about jamestown. We learn ab