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 pingel, im the associate curator at the exam and im happy to be a tour today. 1976useum was started in by one of the five original jewish congregations that date period. The colonial 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 Mall in philadelphia, halfway between Independence Hall or the nation got its start and the National Constitution center which explores the founding documents of the nation. We like to
Next on book tvs afterwards, historian Neil Ferguson discusses his book kissinger, the idealists. It looks at the early life of Henry Kissinger. He is interviewed by Carla Anne Robbins of the council on Foreign Relations and National Security prep best threat root college. Welcome professor and thank you for doing this. This is the first of two book authorized under the prep as you say that not only has this book been written with her kissingers cooperation it was written with his suggestion. How did that happen . Authors ought to be nervous of it because it advised that he had some control over it. When he suggested this to me which is number than ten years ago i said, yes i will be willing to do this but one condition, i have a completely free hand and you have to accept that if you ask me to do this and give me access to your private papers, i will write what i think is the truth. Which is incidentally the basis for which i have written the previous book. So he agreed to that. I thi
afternoon in the form of a news conference. now, the latest news in terms of student thursday at the college, school buses were taken on to the campus where they loaded the students and they are being taken to the douglas county fairgrounds, and down i-5 is a few miles just south there of roseburg, and that where is they will be reunited with family and friends. the local hospital that is jew a is just a very busy place and we were told by reporters, who have been following this since it started, they are telling us the number of people is just amazing who have been up there. thanks to kval station. their local representative is a
so i got on a plane train in baltimore. the train was full of politicians, because there was no air travel in this part of september 2001 and they re all going to ground zero for president bush s honoring of the dead. behind me sat john mccain. to my right sat richard perle. i don t know if you know who richard perle is but he was on his cell phone most of the ride trying to convince leslie stahl to do an interview of saddam hussein and ask them why he bombed the twin towers. and when he finished talking to leslie stahl, he would call the pentagon and explain what he was doing, trying, i think the phrase he used was [inaudible]. a commercial. don t focus. anyway, i got off the train watching history being made, the fear that we all had as americans, a new fear was being given a face. and that face was the face of saddam hussein. not to say islam. when we got off the train i got on the subway to go to nyu. the subway was empty because it went under the former twin towers.