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Guitarist use to say, you have to be mighty careful where you aim because its likely to get there and senator Mitch Mcconnell did, thank you very much for talking with me. Guest thank you. Cspan created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Day two book tv live coverage of the printers row lit festival. Youll hear from sidney, sebastian, natalie on segregation in chicago and across america and many others. For a complete schedule, check out our schedule booktv. Org or follow us on twitter at book tv or an facebook, facebook. Com booktv. Welcome to the 32nd annual chicago lit festival. The theme of this years festival is what your story. We encourage you to share the stories you hear this weekend on twitter, instagram or facebook using prlf16. ....
Festival. Youll hear from sidney, sebastian, natalie on segregation in chicago and across america and many others. For a complete schedule, check out our schedule booktv. Org or follow us on twitter at book tv or an facebook, facebook. Com booktv. Welcome to the 32nd annual chicago lit festival. The theme of this years festival is what your story. We encourage you to share the stories you hear this weekend on twitter, instagram or facebook using prlf16. You can keep the spirit of lit fest all year by downloading the app where youll find all of the Chicago Tribunes premium book content free and discounted books for subscribers and the complete printers row lit fest schedule. Download today to get a free ebook and 5 off merchandise. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s book tv. If theres time at the end for q a session with the author, we ask you to use the microphone located to your right so that the home viewing audie ....
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Irish need apply. This class is about an hour and 10 minutes. Welcome to the latest chapter of the irishamerican experience. We will be talking about nativism, the antiimmigrant movement that explodes in the 19th century, pretty much impacting all immigrants, but especially the irish. They are the biggest group. They are the most identifiable group. They are in the biggest cities. They stand out and generate an enormous opposition. Before we get into that, lets back up a little bit. We are not just going to be simply talking about the irish today, because the nativist response the irish generates actually existed before the irish got here. You can find early versions of it in the early 18th century and you also find echoes of it since that time. It speaks to the larger american experience. It is a kind of phenomenon that we pride ourselves of being a nation of immigrants, but we are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation that is always questioning that tradition. Lets start w ....
You can find echoes of it still. It speaks to the larger american experience. It is a kind of phenomenon that we pride ourselves of being a nation of immigrants, but we are a nation that is always questioning that tradition. Lets start with looking at things in 2014. What do americans think of immigration . If you go to ellis island, you will see this image, an american flag, very large. If you stand on one end, it has kind of a hologram effect. If you stand to be right side you just see a big flag, and if you walked to where i am standing, the image changes and you see these faces representing these different groups. To miss rates how much americans love immigration. This seems strange given the politics today, but americans, i would say most americans today in the 21st century absolutely love immigration. As strange as that may sound, hold that thought. But we know from headlines, from politics, debates in congress and so forth then americans also hate immigration. Explaining to the ....