Ep 6 - The Immigrant’s Tale & the Fusion Thread

<p><em><strong>The American Tapestry Project: We Tell Ourselves Stories</strong></em> concludes in Episode #6: <em><strong>The Immigrant’s Tale and The Fusion Thread</strong></em><strong>. ‘</strong>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 &nbsp;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 <em>Know Nothings</em> of the 19th century and their 21st century white nationalist cousins. The series concludes with <em><strong>The Fusion Thread</strong></em> – Roth’s sense of the “American Story” as the interwoven threads of American ideals (freedom, equality &amp; opportunity), the ongoing experiment in self-government and the ever-expanding definition of <em><strong>“We”</strong></em> in our founding documents, as in <em><strong>“We the People…”</strong></em></p>