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i m in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. it s an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man s strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. my name s barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. hi, barry. i m jamie. hi, jamie. nice to meet you. i meet barry in front of this little house. yep, this is it his strange inheritance. it s just 600 square feet, and it s now surrounded by a huge shopping mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. who leaves this to somebody? well, edith left it to me. edith? yep. love to learn more. okay. come on. barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shingle-mill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. there was fishing on elliot bay there ....
coming up next, albany law school professor emeritus paul finkelman delivering a keynote address at a symposium focused on the history of immigration in america. mr. finkelman compares the roles of congress, states, and the president in developing immigration policy from the colonial period to modern day. this event is part of a two-day u.s. capitol historical society symposium. it s about an hour and 15 minutes. for the keynote opening this particular symposium, we have professor finkelman. again, those of you who come on a routine basis, know paul well. he s been our fearless leader for the past several years in helping to direct the symposium. because of that i feel like no introduction is needed. but really in paul s case it s really true. i ll just say that he comes to us from the university of saskatchewan to give you a sense of how far he s come to be with us today. he s there on a visiting professorship on human rights. he ll be speaking on a a nation of im ....
he s been our fearless leader for the past several years and helping to direct the symposium. no introduction is needed. it is really too. i will say that she comes to us from the university of saskatchewan to give you a sense of how far yes come today. he is under a visiting professorship on human rights on ae will be speaking nation of immigrants. the keynote is and what opportunity to look, to see the theme in a broader sense. you will be laying the groundwork or everything we will be discussing. he will be laying the groundwork for everything will be talking about. we have a special lunch program that we don t do typically. we will have a speaker join us during lunch tomorrow so we can keep people in the room. we will have boxed lunches and you will enjoy it. if you are suspicious about a living history interpreter does, it is a good chance for you to find out what kind of historians deal with the public directly. these are people who speak to classroom groups, tour ....
routine basis know paul well. he s been our fearless leader for the past several years in helping to direct the symposium. because of that, i feel like no introduction is needed. that old canard, but in paul s case, it s really true. i ll just say that he comes to us from the university of saskatchewan to give you a sense of how far he s come to be with us today. he s there on a professor, visiting professorship on human rights. and he ll be speaking on a nation of immigrants, the keynote, of course, is an opportunity to look at the theme in a broader sense. so he s going to be laying the groundwork for everything we re going to be discussing tomorrow, and i hope you ll all come back if you can tomorrow as well. one last thing before paul comes up to the podium. we have a special lunch program, something we don t do typically. we re going to have a speaker join us during lunch period tomorrow. so we can keep people in the room, but have boxed lunches to make that easy f ....
was in the 80s. when a soviet jewry movement begins here in the united states. and the american jewish community found itself in direct, direct defiance of the wishes of the israeli government that wanted the russians to go there. and the american jewish community argued freedom of choice. on immigration. of course once the russian jews arrive here in large numbers, they really don t want a lot to do with them and i ll just end with an anecdote. i mentioned to my own synagogue board, maybe we should have an outreach program to russian jews in northeast philadelphia. and one member said out loud, why do we need to do that? i already have somebody to do my nails. coming up tonight on american history tv, it s the history of immigration. starting at 8:00 p.m., we ll show you a comparison of the roles of congress, states, and the president in developing immigration policy. going all the way back to the colonial period. then at 9:20 eastern, the origins of the 1882 chin ....