Cspan is at the National World War Ii Museum that opened in 2000. Today, we will be visiting the road to tokyo exhibit that does the American Experience in the pacific theater. Lockout, everyone, to the National World War Ii Museum in downtown new orleans. We have several different permanent exhibits. We are at the road to tokyo exhibit that will take us through the war in the pacific and asia from 1941 to 1945. We designed this exhibit is every creation of the bridge of the uss enterprise, the world war ii Aircraft Carrier in the u. S. Navy. As you enter the exhibit, you enter the ship and get yourself oriented to the war in the pacific. We try to introduce our visitors to the players. You have here we go you have hirohito who started this. And we have the leader of the nationalist chinese. As we advance through the bridge of the uss enterprise, this is where the command elements will be. The will go to the next gallery and get a better look at what life was like for the crewmen aboar
How did the revolution survive its darkest hour . Because, of course, while all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and creating constitutions and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition in european history is headed towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eyewitness depiction, which weve blown up as a mural, showing 5000 british warships and about 6,000 british and hessian troops in landing boats about to land on manhattan baynd in kept bay kips on september 15, 1776. At the time, one of the soldiers saw the ships gathering in new york harbor and later said i thought all london was afloat. So, it was one thing to declare independence, to tear down the king, to declare that you are now living in the American Revolution, but to actually achieve american independence was going to be an effort of many, many more years of struggle. And the first thing americans had to do was just survive the onslaught that was coming in the form
How did the revolution survive , its darkest hour . While all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and creating constitutions and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition in european history is headed towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eyewitness depiction, which weve blown up as a mural, showing british 5000 warships and about 6,000 british and hessian troops in landing boats about to land on Manhattan Island in kips base on september 15, 1776. At the time, one of the soldiers saw the ships gathering in new york harbor and later said i afloat. Ll london was it was one thing to declare independence, to tear down the king, to declare that you are now living in the American Revolution, but to actually achieve american independence was going to be an effort of many more years of struggle. And the first thing americans had to do was just survive the onslaught that was coming in the form of the british army. We have a really e
Troops. There is only few fragments of that statue that have survived. Its a great story. American up next on artifacts in the second of a twopart visit to philadelphias museum of the American Revolution, Vice President of Stephenson Scott leads us on a tour of the exhibit galleries covering the 17761778. We asked visitors in the gallery four big questions. The first of those questions is ow did people become revolutionaries. When they come back to the iii, they king george should be able to that question f how they become revolutionaries. The second question how did the revolution survive its darkest hour. While all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and accusations and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition headed ean history is towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eye witness epiction which weve blown up as a mural showing five british 6,000 britishabout and hessian troops in landing to land on manhattan base on sept
We are standing in the central gallery of the museum of the American Indians latest exhibition. Her that premises that a most American People today feel they have very little to do with native americans, and native americans have virtually nothing to do with them or their lives. We believe the exact opposite is true. The Natural Museum of the American Indian is examining the nature of nonnative americans relationship with native americans. And we do this through a prism of the national paradox. The paradox is American Indians constitute a one to 2 of the u. S. Population, yet everywhere you look you see imagery of American Indians. Its also found on state and county seals. It is found in u. S. Military insignia. It is found on architectural elements, buildings and bridges. Its everywhere you look in american life. Whether it was people that came over on the mayflower or indeed a recent immigrant, one recognizes this imagery as part and parcel of american life. We wanted to begin our ex