Been the sight of extensive archeology work since 1973. After university of pittsburgh students painstakingly removed layer after layer of sediment, evidence of human activity as early as 19,000 years ago was revealed. We visited meadowcroft, the National Historic landmark to learn the story from james adovasio, who has been leading Archaeology Research there for 50 years. We are currently 46 kilometers southwest of pittsburgh, pennsylvania in Washington County on the north bank of cross creek, which is a small tributary of the ohio river. In 1972, there was a vacancy in the Anthropology Department at the university of pittsburgh. I joined the faculty there. One of the parameters of which job was to set up an Archaeological Training Program that would train not only graduate and undergraduate students in anthropology and archaeology in the protocols of modern excavation, but also to train people in ancillary fields, geologists, climatologists, floral and fauna specialists and so forth.
Because we know that not all immigrants were welcomed into the country. Not all immigrants were able to achieve their american dreams. But rather, we picked and sifted and chose which immigrants to let in and which immigrants to let out. Or keep out. And many times, this really was dependent upon an immigrants race, ethnicity, gender, class, this idea of who is fit to become a citizen and who is not. And this is the history that is best exemplified through immigration through angel island. This is in the San Francisco bay. It is that other island, not alcatraz, but that other island in the San Francisco bay that is now a california state park. So, the immigration station on angel island was open from 1910 to 1940. We primarily think about it as an entry point for immigrants from china and japan. And two thirds of the immigrants who did come through angel island were from those two countries. But as you can see, there are over 80 countries represented for the immigration stream that cam
Time. Again, thank you all for coming, gentlemen, we cant thank you enough. Thanks again. First ladies, infloouns and image on American History tv, examines the private lives and the public roles of the nations first ladies, through interviews with top historians. Tonight we look at the first two first ladies. Martha washington and abigail adams. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Every saturday night American History tv takes you to College Classrooms around the country for lectures in history. Why do you all know who Lizzie Borden is, and if of raise your hand if you had heard of the gene harris murder trial before this class. The deepest cause where well find the true meaning of the revolution, is the true transformation that took place in the minds of the american people. The tools, the techniques and well talk about the tools and techniques of power that were practiced by enslaved people. Watch history professors lead discussions with their students o
Are. It is not a secret in washington, d. C. We continue to see the bias crimes in crease as far as the numbers are reported here. One of the reasons why we actually celebrate the fact that our bias crime members keep going up is that we believe we are educating our citizens better every year and building stronger relationships, that bias crimes that were committed in the past are now being reported to us. That is part of the education. Third part of the mission and the part that im biased about that i think is the most important is, unlike most community policing, we are actually doing police work. The officers i work with and officials i work with our not only going to be at those events and classes, but when that pride parade was interrupted by what appeared to be an active shooter, but then got it wasnt. It was these officers and those liaison units who were amongst the very first running through the crowd in the opposite direction towards it. What Community Members saw was, member
To the streets of old city philadelphia and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of the event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way to show that for many of the people that remained in the city that winter this was an occupation and maybe a liberation from many of their perspectives and they wrote about in the period being liberated from the ash trar congress which is maybe something we can all aspire to some day. So we do this with living history programming in part because people come to museums to learn in all different ways to encounter the real things of history to have a Human Experience to connect with it and one way we bring it to life is with living history programming with the new Theatrical Program where richard storms into the room with guns blazing and the spoilers at the end of his life, but he maybe doesnt know that yet. We also do the larger living history events and its a pleasure to introduce these set of speakers because