after the immigrates establishment of ellis island. family,red to the other this family had a great deal more bureaucracy to deal with. going through the immigration process. not least of which was the united states' immigration quotas which were on the books in those days. they dictated the number of immigrants allowed to come to the united states based on nationality. there were fewer italians allowed in then there were immigrants from other countries. this family knew this. the immigration quotas which the united states was using in those days were based in part on what we consider a pseudoscience called eugenics, a theory that not all human beings are genetically equal. and some people from some parts of the world are superior to others. olfo baldizzi was ready to migrate, he was worried his father would not be able to follow him. he was worried he would be turned away. the baldizzi family did not know how his wife winds up in the united states. to the best of our understanding, she works around the system. visitorsbout this with t

immigrants, million as many as 5000 a day at times, passed through ellis island under the examining hands and eyes of the marine hospital service. announcer:announcer: learn more 7 p.m.accines tonight at pacific on american history tv. [birds chirping] announcer: this is american history tv, featuring events, interviews, archival films and visits to college classrooms, museums and historic places. exploring our past, every weekend on c-span3. announcer: since july of 2017, the national archives has released thousands of documents related to the john f. kennedy assassination. many of them had been withheld by the cia and fbi for alleged national security reasons. the document releases are mandated by the records collection act of 1992 and will continue into 2018, so some of the documents contain redactions. up next, our visit to the national archives to learn about the assassination records and to see the artifacts, lightly harvey oswald's rifle, the so-called magic bullet and the eight millimeters film of the assassination. our guide is martha wegner murphy,

more than 12 million immigrants, as many as 5000 a day at times passed through ellis island under the examining hands in watchful eyes of the marine hospital service. in 1902, the service was renamed. it became the public health and marine hospital service. in 1912, as legislation increased its scope of activities, its name was simplified to the public health service. in the early 1900s, the service lead the fight in investigating dozens of diseases, and developing treatments for them. the service battled trick coma, a contagious eye disease that could cause blindness. commission cord doctor john mick mullen took his team to the rural hills of kentucky. he established a hospital and 11 field clinics. mick mullen and his team taught personal hygiene to local residents to stem the spread of the inflammation. within ten years the incidents of cases was drastically reduced. the ph as marshaled its energies in montana's, valley that to stop a spotted fever, the disease was carried on takes on live stocks and other animals. doctor thomas mcclintock was sent to montana to control the disease

more than 12 million immigrants, as many as 5,000 a day at times, passed through ellis island under the examining hands and watchful eyes of the marine hospital service. in 1902, the service was renamed. it became the public health of marine hospital service. in 1912, as legislation increased its scope, the name was simplified to be public health service. in the early 1900's, the service led the fight in investigating dozens of diseases and developing treatments for them. the service battled a serious eye disease that can cause blindness. the commission corps doctor took his team to be rural hills of kentucky. he established a hospital and 11 field clinics. he taught personal hygiene to local residents to stem the spread of inflammation. within 10 years, the incidence of glaucoma cases was reduced. they marshaled their energies in montana to combat rocky mountain spotted fever. the disease was carried by ticks on livestock and other animals. one doctor was sent to montana to find a way to control the disease. as he searched for a cure, he became infected with the disease and died. he wa

more than 12 million immigrants, as many as 5,000 a day at times, passed through ellis island under the examining hands of the marine hospital service. in 1902 the service was renamed, it became the marine hospital service. as legislation increased its scope of activities, its name was simplified to the public health service. in the early 1900s, the service led the fight in investigating dozens of diseases and developing treatments for them. the service battled trachoma, an eye disease that can cause blindness. the commission corps doctor took his team to the rural hills of kentucky. he established a hospital and 11 field clinics. they taught personal hygiene to stem the spread of the inflammation. within ten years, the incidents were drastically reduced. the phs martialed its energies to combat rocky mountain spotted fever. the disease was carried by ticks. thoms mcclintock tried to find a way to stop the disease. in the search for the cure, he became infected with the disease and died. a vaccine to combat the disease was ultimately developed. one of the most perplexing diseases of the

million emigrants, as many as 5000 per day passed through eliis island -- ellis island under the watchful eyes. >> learn more about vaccines at 10 about eight -- at 10:00 eastern here on american history tv. [whistling music] [woodwind instruments] [drums] [music continues] >> you are watching american history tv. onhours of programming american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter at c-span information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. presidency,he historians harold holzer, edna greene medford and david blight talked about the views of abraham lincoln and frederick douglass on emancipating those held in slavery. they track their evolution on the issue from early in their careers through the civil war. the new-york historical society hosts the event. louise: good morning, everyone and happy new year to everyone. welcome to the new york historical society. i am the president and ceo. as always i am thrilled to see , all of you here in our beautiful auditorium this morning. today's program, "frederick douglass, abraham lincoln and emancipation"

[whirring] there were several films that were taken arriving at ellis island. shots of people getting off the boat at ellis island, which is a wonderful film. [whirring] we have a whole series of films that were shot both before and after the san francisco earthquake. so we have got some that were made literally in the weeks before the san francisco earthquake. one of them is particularly popular called "a trip down market street," in which a camera was mounted on the front of a streetcar and follows the streetcar path all the way down market street in san francisco. that was taken a few weeks before the san francisco earthquake in april 1906. and then, of course, cameramen rushed out to chronicle the fire and destruction that happened in san francisco in the wake of the earthquake. we have other little, interesting oddities in the collection, like, for example, we have advertisements. the very earliest ad we have in our collection comes in 1898, an ad called "admiral cigarettes." [whirring] another that is interesting, this is from 1903. this is for gold dust

of people getting off the boat at ellis island which is a wonderful film. we have a whole series of films that were shot both before and after the san francisco earthquake, so we've got some that were made literally in the weeks before the san francisco earthquake. one of them is particularly popular called a trip down market street which a camera was just mounted on the front of a streetcar and it follows the streetcar path all the way down market street in san francisco, that was taken a few weeks before the san francisco earthquake in april, 1906 and of course cameramen rushed out to chronicle a lot of the fire and destruction that happened in san francisco in the wake of the earthquake. we have other interesting oddities in the collection like for example, we have advertisements, the very earliest ad that we have in our collection is in 1898, and add for admiral cigarettes. this is from 1903, this is for gold dust scouring powder. you will notice the unique format, this is from a biograph camera in 1903, the paper is wider and it's got this unique cente

aftermily immigrates here the establishment of ellis island. as compared to the other family, these family had more neuropathy to deal with. going through the -- more bureaucracy to deal with going through the immigration process. not least of which was the immigration quotas. these quotas dictated the number of immigrants who were allowed to come here to the united states based on nationality. there were fewer italians allowed in the end there were immigrants from other countries. the family knew this. which theation quotas united states government was using in those days were based in part on what we would now consider pseudoscience called eugenics which is the thought that not all human being's are genetically equal. that some people are inherently superior to others. the patriarch was preparing to immigrate here, he was worried that his wife would not be able to follow him if she went through the proper legal channel. he was worried that she would be turned away. the family did not know for certain how the wife eventually ended appear in th

an immigrant family who comes through ellis island in the turn of the century in 1900, 1910s, enters a quite low-level on the platform of american society. but when they arrive at ellis island the set their foot on the upper tier of a two-tier caste society that has been shaped by slavery and jim crow and they're able to rise into property ownership and economic prosperity, using tools are denied african-americans. >> host: this may seem a bit like a diversion but it's in the book and it's been in the news of late. the phenomenon of blackness a summit asked me white person, and what is offensive about blackface? your book comments on it a lot. can you tell us about the origins of blackface in this phenomenon, particularly tie to mardi gras but this phenomenon of whites putting on blackface and why that's offensive? >> guest: it's an interesting dimension of our psychological history in the early 1840s i think. there's this enormously popular art called minstrelsy arises and its white people putting on makeup to appear black and performing music that they have taken from or parodied f

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more than 12 million emigrants -- immigrants, past through ellis island of the -- under the marine hospital service. >> learn more about vaccines tonight at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 civic, here on american history tv. >> boston red sox historian gord on edes leads a discussion on the teams contributions in world war two. with hall of famer ted williams and others, they give insight into the training, combat experience and perception. this event is hosted by the massachusetts historic society. gordon: today we have a great program which will explore one of the most popular topics in boston which is the boston red sox. specifically looking at boston red sox and world war ii. panele joined by a great that by gordon eads. this is his fifth program with us in the last couple of years and he has done a lot

the first group they sent them over to ellis island. they had essentially deportation hearings and they put them on a boat and sent them to the soviet union. it was nicknamed the soviet arc. but at that time, again, there was really no due process for. this we never encountered anything like this before. we had no american civil liberties union. it was created during this time effectively. there were no guardrails to an attorney general who is effectively writing his own agenda. because wilson has now had a stroke and is not really minding the store. sorry mitchell palmer is doing his own thing, trying to keep the country safe from the reds, meanwhile he's actually doing this because he wants to run for the presidency in 1920. see definitely there were the anarchist that were throwing bombs and whatnot, but largely this is fearmongering, we want to read up the reds and show how tough we are on those reds. ultimately the whole thing back for us against mitchell palmer. there's the acting secretary of labor named lewis post. and at that t

they live here after ellis island, so the balducci had a great deal more bureaucracy to deal with going through the immigration process, not the least of which was the united states' immigration quotas which are on the books in those days. these quotas dictated the number of immigrants who were allowed to come here to the united states based on nationality. there were few italians let in than they were immigrants from other countries. the baldiccis knew this. the quotas which the government used in those days were based in part on sued o'giants, which is all beasts are not made historically beautiful, are inherent. he was worried that his wife would not be able to cope. he's not sure how his wife ended up here in the united states, but best of our knowledge, she works around the system. we talk to visitors to think about how clearly immigration is discussed in the present day, because rosaria's story is similar to present-day immigrants. we like to put faces to names, and we share family photos of the baldicci. rosaria and josephine balducci have two children. i think it would be so str

and they immigrate here after the accomplishment of ellis island. they had a great deal more bureaucracy to deal with. going through the immigration process. not least of which was the united states' immigration quotas which were on the books in those days, these quotas dictated the number of immigrants who were allowed to come here to the united states based on nationality. there were fewer italians allowed in than there were immigrants from other countries. and they knew this. the immigration quotas, which the united states government was using in those days were based in part of what we would now consider a pseudo science, called eugenics which is a theory that not all human beings are inherently genetically equal. and some people from some parts o of the world are inherently superior to others. so when adolfo was preparing to immigrate here, he was worried he his wife would be turned away. and they do not know for certain how adolfo's wife eventually winds up here in the united states, but to the best of our understanding, she works around the s

the first group was sent to ellis island, they had essentially deportation hearings and they put them on a boat and sent them to the soviet union. the boat was the uss buford, rc.knamed the soviet a there is no due process for this, we had no american civil liberties union, it was created during this time effectively. there were no guardrails to an attorney general whose effectively writing his own agenda because wilson has now had a stroke and is not minding the store, and so will -- mitchell palmer is doing his own thing trying to keep the country safe from the reds. he is actually doing this because he wants to run for the presidency in 1920. largely this is a man-made crisis. this is fear mongering, we will go round up all the reds and so -- show how tough we are. ultimately it backfires against mitchell palmer, there is -- the acting secretary of labor named lewis post and at that time, the department of labor is in control of ellis island and immigration. he is the one after the second raids occurred, he starts revealing the documentation and seeing how little evidence there was

island in the term of the 19 tens and enters a low level on the platform of american society but when they arrive they are put on the society that has been shaped by slavery and jim crow and they are able to rise into property ownership and economic prosperity's using tools that are denied. that is also a part of family history people are able to acknowledge. >> it may seem like a bit of a diversion but it's in the book and it's been in the news of late the phenomenon of blackface. someone asked me recently what is sensitive about it and i wasn't able to articulate but your book comments on it a lot. can you tell us about the origins and the phenomenon of whites putting on blackface and why it's offensive. >> it is a dimension of our psychological history. in the 1840s i think there is an enormously popular art that arises and people put on makeup to appear black and perform music they have taken from or parodied from black sources. plantation blues. and it becomes the most popular form of culture for a century. there's hundreds of millions of people going to the shows throughout righ

and the first group they sent over to ellis island. they had essentially deportation hearings and they put them on a boat and sent them to the soviet union. the boat was the uss buford, nicknamed the soviet arc. [laughter] but at that time, again, there was really no due process for this. we had an encounter this before. -- hadn't encountered this before. we had no american civil liberties union. it was created during this time effectively. there were no guardrails to an attorney general whose effectively writing his own agenda because wilson has now had a stroke and is not minding the store, and so will -- mitchell palmer is doing his own thing, trying to keep the country safe from the reds. meanwhile, he's actually doing this because he wants to run for the presidency in 1920. so there were definitely anarchists throwing bombs and whatnot, but largely this is a man-made crisis. this is fear mongering. we're going to go round up all the reds and show how tough we are. ultimately, it backfires against mitchell palmer. there is -- the a

island, so the multiseat family had a similar bureaucracy to deal with going to the immigration process. not least of which was the united states immigration quota on the books in those days. these quotas dictated the number of immigrants who were allowed to come here to the united states based on nationality. there were fewer italians allowed in than there were immigrants from other countries and the body see family knew this. the immigration quotas which the united states government was using in those days were based in part on what we would now consider pseudoscience called eugenics which is a theory that not all human beings are inherently genetically equal. and some people from some parts of the world are inherently superior to others. so when a duffel bull tc was prepared to immigrate here, he was worried that his wife would not be able to follow him if you went through the proper legal channels. he was worried that she would be turned away and the potassium does not know for certain how adolfo's wife rosaria eventually winds up here in the united states, but to the best of our un

island and call them marginalized victims and minorities and instill them with grievances so they can change the country from within. it was the opposite that was done, just as the opposite was done with the scandinavians and germans and irish and scots irish. it was an extended hand, saying, you join us in our culture, you become americans. no other country does this, by the way. my experience as a foreign correspondent, i can tell you having lived in many foreign countries, we are unique in extending this invitation to newcomers when they become americans. identity politics is a departure from the model, to say this is what has been done for centuries. it must be a deliberate misreading and that author's use of the term latinx shows where his political bias lies. host: bob in texas on the republican line. caller: i would like to ask -- there are two words in the first sentence of u.s. code. [indiscernible] host: you are breaking up a little bit. go ahead and rephrase your question. caller: we keep asking what we need and i would like to ask -- there are two laws in the first sentenc

there was a famous court case between new york and new jersey over who owned ellis island. is there any precedent for this kind of suit that is now being undertaken by 17 states and joined by the president? >> no, there isn't. sometimes there are boarder disputes, water rights disputes. although those are very rare. i don't know that i've talked to anyone that seen anything like this before. it's so incredibly outrageous. i will say this directly to general paxton, if he's watching. you know who voted for you in michigan, general paxton? no one. literally no one. so, stay in your lane and stick to trying to disenfranchise voters in your own state. don't come to mine. >> attorney general, i think, part of the team filing the response briefs. i don't think the court will take this but we'll see. thank you for taking some time. >>> ahead from death threats to tracking down officials at their homes. o tracking down officials at their homes. >>> we're at jawsline benson's house and we're not going away. we do not accept this fraudulent election. you are not going to take this el

there was a famous case between new york and new jersey over who owned ellis island. that is the kind of thing. is there any precedent for this type of suit that is now being undertaken by 17 states and joined by the president? >> no there is not. sometimes there are border disputes. there are water right disputes, although those are rare. i have never seen anything like this. i do not know that i talked to anyone that has seen anything like this before. it is so incredibly outrageous. i will say this. directly to general paxton if he is watching. you know who voted for you in michigan, general paxton. no one. literally no one. stay in your lane. stick to trying to disenfranchise voters in your own state and don't come to mine. >> part of the team there filing the briefings. i don't think the court will take it but we should see. ahead from death threats to tracking down health officials in their home, the new dangerous levels of the maga frenzy after this. f the maga frenzy after this you work hard for your money. stretched days for it. juggled life for it. took char

island and have them denoted as marginalized minorities and instill them with grievances so they can change the country from within. it was the opposite that was done. just as was the opposite done with the scandinavians and the germans and the irish and the scots-irish. it was a beckoning, an extended hand saying, you join us in our system and our culture. you become americans. no other country does this, by the way. this is where my experience as a foreign correspondent -- i can tell you, having lived in many different european and asian countries that we are unique in extending invitations to newcomers to become americans. identity politics is a departure from the model. to say that this is what has been done for centuries, it must be a deliberate misreading. and that author's use of the term "latinx" shows where his political bias lies. host: let's go to bob in tyler, texas on the republican line. caller: yes, good morning. host: good morning. [indiscernible] host: bob, you are breaking up a little bit. go ahead and rephrase your question. mike and i were having trouble hearing y

the family emigres here after the establishment of ellis island. they had a great deal more bureaucracy to deal with going through the immigration process. not least of which was the u.s.'s immigration quotas. these dictated the number of immigrants who were allowed to come to the united states based on nationality. there were fewer italians allowed then there were immigrants from other countries. they knew this. the immigration quotas, which the u.s. government was using in those days, were based in part on what we would consider a pseudoscience called eugenics, which is the theory that not all human beings are genetically equal. some people are inherently superior to others. they were preparing to immigrate here, they worried his wife would not be able to follow him if she went through the proper legal channels. the family does not know for how his wife eventually winds up here in the u.s., but to the best of our understanding, she works around the system. we talk about this to think more clearly about how immigration is discussed in the present

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they immigrate here after the establishment of ellis island. as compared to this, they had a great deal more bureaucracy to deal with going through the immigration process. not least of which was the united states 's immigration quota on the books in those days. these quotas dictated the number of immigrants allowed to come here to the united states based on nationality. there were fewer italians allowed in them there were immigrants from other countries. the immigration quota which the united states government was using in those days were based in part on what we would now consider a pseudoscience called eugenics, a theory that not all human beings are inherently genetically. some people from some parts of the world are inherently superior to others. so when they were preparing to immigrate here, he was worried that his wife would not be able to follow him if she went through the proper legal channels. he was worried she would be told away, and they did not know for certain how she winds up here in the united states. to the best of our underst

at ellis island you have a profusion of groups from sicily, eastern europe, hungary. america's demography has always been changing. there is nothing about this new wave that necessitated breaking the country into categories and minorities. here we mentioned briefly two things -- tell us about your immigration background coming to this country, your folks, and secondly there used to be the idea of a melting pot in america. it does that still exist or is that idea still worth having? is one of melting pot the first ideas that is targeted in this new dispensation of politics-- of identity for a reason because the melting pot is about joining the system and improving the system and accessing the system. those who have this in mind do not want to improve the system. they want to change the american system starting with capitalism. these are very marxist ideas. the critical theory on which all this is based is a neo-marxist school. -- i am anory immigrant. i was born in cuba, left at the age of 12, my family went to europe then we came to new york in the early 70's when i h

rifts between scientists undermining international efforts to prove its safe and ready for use shelob ellis al-jazeera now aid workers say thousands of running the refugees are being coerced into moving to a remote island off the coast of bangladesh which the un wards is prone to storms and flooding navy officials say more than 1600 refugees are heading to the island of wash and char from cops as bizarre that he want 1000000 really have been living in squalid counts in southeastern bangladesh after fleeing me and maher they're refusing to return without guarantees for their safety and their rights u.s. secretary of state my pompous as washington is appalled by the treatment of pro-democracy advocates in hong kong his comments follow the jailing of 3 prominent activists for their role in protests on wednesday joshua wong agnes char and i've never received sentences ranging from 7 to 13 months and on thursday a hong kong court denied bail and detained newspaper publisher jimmy line evacuations are underway in indonesia's north sumatra province following flash floods heavy rains of batter the

world news aid workers say hundreds of rohingya refugees are being coerced into moving to a remote island off the coast of bangladesh which the u.n. warns is prone to storms and flooding navy officials say more than $1600.00 running of refugees are heading to the island of bashan chalk from cox's bizarre nearly 1000000 rohingya have been living in squalid camps in southeast bangladesh after being forced out of myanmar by a military crackdown. there forcing my son and his family to go he didn't want to go but he forced him i came to see him probably for the last time. you know not really ringback my family didn't want to go there taking them by force. if my family go there to the island they will die because of floods. they mercilessly beat my brother and broke 2 or 3 teeth when they brought him here my brother didn't want to go to the other they beat my brother and they brought my nieces and sister in law here last night al jazeera stand there chadri has more from cox says bazaar . at least 100000 during iraq it is will be moved to boston char for security reasons mainly and also because

kilometers from here i spoke to the level commander was in charge of operation that why aren't john ellis and others local john is not the international one and they said the facilities are good everything is there you all will be going there so on but today's operation is done they'll be a next batch we don't know exactly when south africa's president so rum opposer has announced certain measures to combat a surge in corona virus cases driven by fast spreading variant became the 1st african nation to pass 1000000 infections indoor and outdoor gatherings will be banned a curfew will be enforced the family of a prominent saudi women's rights activists say they'll appeal her jail sentence jane flew was sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison on monday during international condemnation a relative say that she's been sexually assaulted and tortured while in prison but argentina's senate will decide on tuesday whether the legalize abortion hundreds of anti abortion activists protested outside congress ahead of what's expected to be a close vote this month the lower house of congress backed l

. >>> it's not just rhode island. more hospitals are being overrun and field hospitals are opening up. in new york, the governor there worried about the stage ahead for new york state. want to go to rehema ellis who is standing by there. talk us through this. what's happening in new york and how are they going to manage if, in fact, hospitals there do hit capacity? >> good morning. what's happening here is the governor says governor cuomo says the numbers are not as bad as they could be but it doesn't like what he has seen. as a result of that, he's asking hospitals to begin to prepare. no one wants to see this state go through what this hospital behind me experienced last spring when new york was the epicenter of this pandemic. these conditions at this hospital in queens, they were described as apocalyptic. too many patients, overwhelmed staff and, yet, there was hospital space available, some 20 miles away. but they didn't have the coordination. now they have the experience. they know what could happen if the hospit