The American Tapestry Project: We Tell Ourselves Stories concludes in Episode #6: The Immigrant’s Tale and The Fusion Thread. ‘The Immigrant’s Tale’ explores the history of immigration to America from John Smith and John Winthrop in the 17th century to the Irish and Catholic Germans in the mid-19th century to the great influx of southern and Eastern Europeans  in the late 19th/early 20th centuries to the post-1965 surge in Asian, African and Latino immigration with side stops examining the meaning of “citizenship”, evolving immigration law and a look at the Know Nothings of the 19th century and their 21st century white nationalist cousins. The series concludes with The Fusion Thread – Roth’s sense of the “American Story” as the interwoven threads of American ideals (freedom, equality & opportunity), the ongoing experiment in self-government and the ever-expanding definition of “We” in our founding documents, as in “We the People…”

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