Lived there. K hosted by our Comcast Cable partners, cspan taff recently visited places showcasing the history. Learn more about santa rosa this weekend here on history tv. In terms of Property Damage and life lost per capita, no town in america had ever been as affect that by an earthquake as was in 1906. It is generally known it to the population of the world as the San Francisco earthquake and fire. Got shuffled aside, but the damage was staggering. If as many people had died in San Francisco is died in santa rosa, there would have been 75 thousand dead. Santa rosa was, at the time of the earthquake, 52 years old. 52 years from the time the community was founded. It had become a very prosperous town. In terms of Northern California towns, the railroad had been here for 30 years, in fact we had to railroads and were about to have a third. It was the farm town for a very, very important agriculture area that was rolling growing quickly. Very diverse. Prince, apples, hops, a huge crops
Historians in arlington, virginia. Professors, authors, and graduate students about the research. This interview is about 20 minutes. Steve as it history professor, you focus on chinese american before and after world war ii. Take us back to this. Brooks you lived under the shadow of the chinese exclusion act, which is a law passed in 1882 that actually surveyed all chinese immigration to the United States. People forget that today the chinese were once looked upon as undesirable, just because of their race. Chineseamericans growing up at were born in they the United States, they could be amounts, and the tiny allowed in could not naturalize, they could not become citizens. In many ways, you are marginal, you are not a real citizen. When they went out into the world, they could not get a job. They were treated as third class citizens, if their citizenship was actually taken seriously at all. It was a really difficult time. Course, it was made worse. About,ple im writing their children,
This is a 90 minute event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. I am the director of the Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start during the Antiwar Movement here with the United Methodists office, which is donating this room today. The methodists actually hired me right after i came back from vietnam doing my alternative service there with the Mennonite Central Committee in the middle of the war, in the middle of a war zone, helping children learn to read and write their own language. I wanted to also announced to everyone that we have a number of cameras here in the room. Cspan is covering it. So, when we get to questions and answers i will ask you to wait until the microphone comes to you so that you can be heard by the audience that will be watching on Television Later on. Thank you very much and welcome to todays launch. [applause]
Up next in the second of a twopart program, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait paintings. In this program we feature the work of Gilbert Stuart. His unfinished portrait of George Washington is the image on the one dollar bill. Dianne hello, i am Dianne Stephens from the National Gallery of art. John is an artist who is well known for his history paintings in america, not as much portraiture. He aspired to be a history painter, then he eventually went to england and spent a couple of years with Benjamin West. West was an amazing figure who welcomed almost every painter that we are going to talk about today. They learned the art of history painting, came back to the colonies this is his portrait of Alexander Hamilton who was washingtons it is interesting that here Alexander Hamilton is hanging next to Gilbert Stuarts portrait of john jay. Madison, john jay, and Alexander Hamilton wrote the federalist papers. Also, in 1794, john jay invited Alexander Hamilton to be
Automobile which shows a great deal of foresight. The town that came out of the apt toake was much more be able to be more modern, by 1907 standards. Others looking at what santa rosa it was doing were impressed and one particularly who served referred to santa rosa as the plucky us count on the coast. Town on the coast. Watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Each week, American History tv and american artifacts visits historic places. The National Gallery of art was a gift to the American People from Andrew Mellon who served as toasury secretary from 1921 1932. Up next in the second of a twopart program, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait paintings. We feature the work of Gilbert Stuart whose image of George Washington is the image on the one dollar bill. Gilbert stuart went to study with Benjamin West early in his career. He was a very well established painter in london, very proficient and could have stayed in england painting and