Comedian by the name of tim sample and he has this great bit where he talks about getting directions and he says you cant get there from here. Ryan is a fell mainer and he has proven that you can get there from here. Ryan comes to you from the great state of maine. He began working here at the Military Park as an San Bernardino then as a seasonal. Hes also a tour guide at ken moore, an Historic House in downtown fredericksburg. The thing im most excited about with ryan and there are many things because he is an absolute rising rock star in the vein of kevin pollak. He said i love this story of monocracy and he started writing about lew wallace and monocracy and he was fascinated by it. And the emerging civil war gave him the opportunity to explore that passion and you could absolutely see it in the way that his research came together, in the way that he told the story and story and hes opened up what is essentially a littleknown bat until a fresh, exciting and especially relevant way s
Younger partners. The center has been the leading center for software studies for at least a generation. We, still in our toddler phase, look up to them. They also babysit us. It works out nicely. I am really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series of looking at president ial history. This one in particular has such a gallus flair to it. One might say it is fundamentally a gallus story. We all know, especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963, how much dallas is rustling this test rustling with this. I want to take a moment and point out one of our good friends who is here from the museum. I said this in front of her before so i am not embarrassed to say it again. She is this it is the single best Public History Museum in the country. [applause] precisely because it actually takes a hard look at as much as possible. That is what we will do tonight. Especially with this dallas story. I also want to point out that you may ha
And visiting cities across the country. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums. Archives and historic places. On every day of the year, except december 25th, thousands of tourists from the United States and around the world take a short boat ride from either Lower Manhattan or new jersey to visit the statue of liberty and ellis island. Up next, American History tv visited the National Historic landmark to learn the story behind the gift from france. Which was unveiled on october 28th, 1886. After 21 years of planning, fundraising and construction. Im ranger chris mullen from jacksonville, florida. Folks, i have a great job. Ive been working with the National Park Service Since 1999. Ive been all over the United States. I got my start in alaska. And klondike gold rush, National Historical park. Spent a few summers out there. I went to my home town of jacksonville, worked at a small little park on the banks of the st. Johns river. Fort Caroline National memoria
It is the history of european immigrants coming to the new world under the shadow of the statue of liberty. It is often told as a very uplifting and romantic story where immigrants become americans, but not many of us know the history of immigration through angel island. This is the immigration station in San Francisco, and it is an important site not only for what happened back then in the early 20th century but also because it is so timely today. It is timely because when we pick up any newspaper we see headlines like this. This is just from last week. Reps slam obamas immigration town hall. Obama ill fight any attempt to reverse immigration action. Moving forward to fix our broken immigration system. House conservatives warn boehner, dont cave on immigration dispute. Does anyone know what some of these headlines are referring to last week . What was the big debate in congress . What was the proposed shutdown . Diego . They were fighting to shut down dhs funding because of obamas exe
Describing how asian immigrants in california had more extensive background checks and longer Holding Times than european immigrants in new york. The class is about 90 minutes. Well, hello, guys. Welcome back. Im really excited to talk to you today for our session this afternoon because so many of us as americans, we grow up learning about the history of immigration through ellis island, right . This is what we talked about last week. It is the history of european immigrants coming to the new world under the shadow of the statue of liberty. It is often told as a very uplifting and romantic story where immigrants become americans, but not many of us know the history of immigration through angel island. This is the immigration station in San Francisco, and it is an important site not only for what happened back then in the early 20th century but also because it is so timely today. It is timely because when we pick up any newspaper we see headlines like this. This is just from last week.