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The Irish Factor: Bill Maher
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Watch Bill Maher in "The Irish Factor," Finding Your Roots: Season Three.
For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.
Video description: "It sounds like they went to a new world, and they shut a door completely." Kathryn Hahn’s third great-grandfather’s obituary doesn’t mention the wife and kids he left behind in Germany.
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