Showing posts with label Asian American history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asian American history. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

A review of PBS’s “Asian Americans”

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“ … from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the pa...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

A review of Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War” (PBS)

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“ ♪ How many roads must a man walk down, Before they can call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

A review of David Grubin's “The Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha” (PBS)

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For practicing Buddhists, Siddhartha Gautama was just the first Buddha … At the time I write this, I have watched eight other films by ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

A review of Michael Wood's “The Story of China”

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“Representing the will of the people of the entire nation, it has formulated the organization law for the Central People's Government ...
Monday, July 8, 2019

A review of “Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire” (PBS Empires)

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Japan's initial contact with the West in 1543 In the year 1543, a Portuguese trading ship arrived in the Japanese island of Tanegash...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

A review of PBS's “The Great War” (American Experience)

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“We [the German government] intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare . We shall endeavor in spite of this t...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

A review of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” (PBS)

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“♪ Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad. Just to root for the home town crew, Ev'ry sou Katie blew. ♪ ♪ On...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Nixon's visit to China: Driving a wedge between China and the Soviet Union

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This might seem a strange way to begin a blog post about American diplomacy in the Nixon era, but the year 1949 was significant for both t...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Who can vote in the United States?: The voting rights amendments

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" ... that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth ." - Closing lines of  Abr...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

A review of “A History of Japan” (by R. H. P. Mason & J. G. Caiger)

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"We, the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall secure for o...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Japanese American soldiers in World War II

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"Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Army and Na...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

A review of PBS's “The Gold Rush”

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The California Gold Rush is one of those events that tends to have been heard of by the public, but is often overlooked by popular histori...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Why Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan didn't go communist (like mainland China did)

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One of the basic facts about China today is that most of it is communist - the part that most of us hear about. Thus, it surprises some p...
Monday, August 15, 2016

A review of Michael Wood's “The Story of India”

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"As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India , to be kn...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

A review of Ken Burns’ “The West”

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"Nevada Territory is fabulously rich in gold, silver, lead, coal, iron, quicksilver... thieves, murderers, desperadoes ... lawyers, ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

A review of PBS's “Transcontinental Railroad” movie

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"[The Congress shall have the power] To establish post-offices and post-roads ..." - The United States Constitution, Article 1, S...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

A review of "Crucible of Empire: the Spanish-American War"

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I just finished watching "Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War," PBS's two-hour documentary about this time. I wa...
Friday, June 6, 2014

A review of Ken Burns’ “The War” (World War Two series)

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"The German Government, consequently, discontinues diplomatic relations with the United States of America and declares that under th...