wonderful. >> we are going to take a small break until 10:00. we'll ask you to get back in at 10:00 for the next panel with the medal of honor recipients. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> sunday afternoon, former white house press secretaries from the ford, reagan, george h w bush, clinton, and obama administrations discuss how the position has changed over time and the challenges they faced while trying to work for the white house and serve the press. here on c-span3's american

history tv. >> each week, american history " visitserican artifacts museums and historic places. >> i'm the curator for the house of representatives, and that means i take care of a lot of the artifacts, the artwork, the object that document the house's rich heritage. >> my job is to collect biographical information on members of the house, to gather a data and historic list and .onduct oral histories we answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill, and we try to tell the story of the house, which is this very big, very old institution in a way in which people can kind of connect with us at a human level. we do that by telling biographical stories or through clips from oral histories.

>> this is a campaign poster for shirley chisholm, the first african-american woman in congress. i love this because it says unbossed."nd it's actually for a campaign she waged in 1972. she's the first african-american woman to run for president, and she did it on a shoestring budget and had very admirable showing, but she had a national before 1972.ll she is elected to congress in 1968 from a district that encompasses much of brooklyn, and she becomes very prominent in that campaign. her opponent in the general election on the republican --

liberal republican ticket was james farmer, one of the great civil rights leaders, and there's this back and forth between these two, and farmer really runs on the idea that, you know, brooklyn needs a man in congress, and shirley chisholm -- boy, she fires back. her campaign scene is like the one expressed on this poster. "i'm here to be your congresswoman." this advocacy role. she becomes the first african-american woman in congress in 1969, and she serves a career that in a lot of ways is symbolic. she is a first. she helps establish the congressional black caucus in gains a very also prominent committee assignment, the first african-american woman

to serve on the house rules which is the committee that pulses legislation onto the lore, so she had her hands on a lot of important developments in the house, but she also had a national >> she was someone who was very outspoken. , who served for a couple of terms in a house in the 1970's and would later go on to be elected mayor of new york unsuccessfully, these were women who spoke their minds. panel of authors and historians talked about the significance of the 1864 battle of spring hill, franklin, and nashville, the last campaign of the civil war in tennessee. they