settlement at the time. later germany conquered much of western europe, and the passengers who were on the continent had to scramble. we know as a result of the research of -- the painstaking research of sarah ogilvy and scott miller of this museum -- that approximately two-thirds of the passengers survived. contrary to the version in "voyage of the damned," whether you read the book or saw the movie. i've had people tell me, oh, no, that's not right. well, we're here in the holocaust museum, so i will defer to a study that came out of this museum and traced the individuals one by one.

approximately two-thirds survived, and approximately half of them ultimately emigrated to the united states. >> ladies and gentlemen, we have reached -- [applause] i'd like to thank all of you for being here this evening. we've thanked professor breitman. you can see how much work there is being done and can be done on that odd-sounding pairing, america and the holocaust. i hope you'll continue to come to our programs. good evening. [applause] [inaudible conversations]

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"women's history for beginners." >> the biggest challenge for me, let's say as an american educator, is that women's history and women's studies frighten people because the assumption is all women's issues are about the body. therefore, all women's history will be somehow about sex and birth control. therefore, it's not appropriate for a kindergartener or a middle school class. >> you can watch this entire interview at booktv.org. on facebook we posted a link about the first degree in self-publishing to be offered at the university of central lancaster and to recognize the tenth anniversary of facebook, we posted the 2010 presentation of the facebook effect. >> on facebook you have to really be yourself in order to get the benefits that the software is designed to give you. in other words, you can pretend to be someone you're not, but you won't really have a lot of friends, because the whole point of facebook is to connect with

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america." in "the twilight of the american enlightenment: the 1950s and the crisis of liberal belief," george mars den, a history professor at university of notre dame, analyzes the political landscape in a post-world war ii u.s. david lockbaum and edward lyman, members of the union of concerned scientists recount the 2011 nuclear emergency in japan at the fukushima nuclear power reactor, the story of a nuclear disaster. in "the news: a user's manual," 25 news stories are analyzed to better understand their effect on readers and viewers. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and book tv.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. at 7 eastern, rachel sheldon

talks about washington brotherhood. at 7:30, robert moraldi profiles seymour hersh. at 9 p.m. eastern, ishmael beah follows up his memoir with his novel, "radiance of tomorrow." and at 10 p.m., "after words," with john rizzo. he talks about the 30 years he sent with the cia. and we wrap up tonight's prime time programming at 11 eastern with co-authors of "the second machine age." they talk about the technological advancements that have taken other our -- over our lives and our economy. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> i was a candidate -- [inaudible] my interest sort of fell in that field. but i feel like before 9/11 i would call us accidental muslims

because, ultimately, i think many of us are perhaps of a certain religion through an accident of birth. and i think what 9/11 did was -- and i'm not alone that way, i think it did that to many american muslims -- it forces you to grapple with the notion of what it means to be american islam. after all, 9/11 was on trial. and every talking pundit on tv was an expert suddenly, and you were told that you couldn't be a woman and be a muslim, and you needed to be liberated from it, the violence of islam was inherent. so there was a lot coming at me. as the mother of a toddler at the time -- two children, my daughter was starting kindergarten, i very much was worried about the future of my children as american muslims. and i thought, well, if being muslim is just a label or it's something that we are as a

family because of a sort of ancestral loyalty, then why put them through that challenge? it had to be many. and, hence, the beginning of this journey. >> host: so the terrorists blow up two beautiful buildings in our city, our state, our country. and what is the impact on a person like you who's living a comfortable life in manhattan? what impact does that have on you, and what do you think about those people? for the audience that is listening who barely ever gets to hear from people like you. would you tell us what you think of these terrorists and how you think that they have affected your life? >> guest: well, first and foremost, they affected the life of people they took away so savagely that day. from my perspective, my own personal perspective coming at it from the pain of those lost

to the terror that day, the mourning that we were all doing together is compounded by another challenge which is by virtue of calling ourself muslim, we were guilty by association. and so that was heart-wrenchingly difficult. and as a mother, even more so as you grapple with trying to make sense of it all for two very innocent children. >> host: yeah. your son was, what, how old was he? >> guest: he was only 3, and my daughter was just beginning kindergarten. and i remember, sadly, that her first day at school was actually the morning of 9/11, the first official day of kindergarten. and i write about this in the book where i packed a miniature quran in her backpack as aal us

manic kind of protect my daughter -- >> host: that's like christians carrying a cross. >> guest: it is. and it was a big, oversized backpack for the teeny quran. and as i watched the images of the horror of that day, of the buildings going up in flames and thinking that this very same miniature quran i had packed so lovingly in my daughter's backpack was being used to wreak the havoc and the hate and the destruction and the juxtaposition of those two realities, um, was mind numbing and confusing at a very existential level, at a parenting level. and so the journey has been for me a journey of learning and of owning my religion, of understanding the issues and empowering my chirp. we can teach -- my children. we can teach our children as american muslim parents to dissociate this engagement, and

i'm told this is also true to the jewish experience. when you have stereotypes out there and you're trying to develop your identity in opposition to a stereotype, you can sort of say is, you know, i'm not quite muslim, or i'm not quite -- >> host: people are changing names right now. there's a lot of, you know, people are are shying away from celebrating or doing ramadan in the office. people are, you know, closing up their identity. >> guest: and that's a natural reaction. >> host: yeah. >> guest: it's a very difficult journey, but it's one that i hope -- and i do not know that i have made the right choice, but i think i have. i do feel like by taking my children along on this journey and insisting that they -- not insist, because usually the choice -- ultimately the choice is theirs. i take them along, and we learn together. and slowly they have chosen to self-identify as muslims too.

and i think that by doing that, i hope that they can hold both america accountable to to its higher ideals as they can hold islam accountable to its higher ideals, that they become living embodiments of what it means to be truly american and muslim. and they can be agents of change for a better world. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> it is really an instrument of the president, and that has always been the case. the president is always the master. i mention in the book that, you know, presidents -- and i served under seven at my time -- each tend to view it as their certain pop stand. they can direct things in secret, they don't have to worry about the normal