and they, dee showed me on the second treasures -- she was the reviewer. she showed me a picture on her cell phone of a room full of boxes. she said i made these in one day. i said, would you come back with us next time and make archival boxes to order? if a curator deemed your object in danger of being deteriorated, or extra fragile, they will order a custom box or a backboard to support it. you again put it away in an archival sleeve or something that will take care of it. we just have really had a good time teaching the public about how to preserve their things and keep an eye out for our website because in the future we will have some of this information online as well. >> i think the family always felt my mother had left a special gift for the family and the world.

>> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs anytime by visiting our website at c-span.org/history. >> you are watching "american history tv," all weekend, every weekend, and c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. >> this sunday on "q&a." the challenges of policing the city. >> it was very clear to me that i still had an issue with public trust and people believing things that i think were said. and regret list of the fact at i stand in front, like a day for you today, and said use of force is down with a 6%, that complaints are down 53%, that officer involved shootings are dramatically down, and we are moving in all the positive ways. people in community say, you don't believe it. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific.

>> each week, "american history tv"'s real america brings your archival films that helped of the story of the 20th century. on march 8 1965, 3500 marines were deployed to vietnam. marking the beginning of the u.s. groundwork. i the end of 1965, almost 200,000 americans were in the country. when the war ended in 1975, nearly 3 million americans had served in the conflict. and more than 15,000 lost lives. up next, "the screaming eagles in vietnam," the bigger picture episode documenting the activities of the 101st airborne division from its arrival in the spring of 1965 through january of 1967. >> each time the shelling starts, the enemy would -- despite weeklong airstrikes by

u.s. air force jets, the vietnam have shown no signs of withdrawal. but the artillery fire is having a telling effect. [bomb explosions pose bracket -- [bomb explosions] >> the screaming eagles are under fire. the enemy has come to silence the guns. communist fire comes from everywhere. [gunfire]

>> out there, the enemy is creeping in. he will try to overrun the american position. but waiting is agony. then, the enemy makes his move. this is it. live or die. [gunfire] >> the viacom -- vietcong have had enough. they are nowhere to be found. 11 vietnamese are found,

however, in a prison camp. they have apparently received no medical attention while in the hands of the communists. held by the vietcong for several months, their ailments range from open source and skin infections to malnutrition. as well as deformities caused by broken bones. this man, a former vietcong who defected to the republic and was later captured, cannot tell his unspeakable nightmare with the enemy. >> here are some of our future programs for this weekend on the c-span networks. on c-span two "booktv," allan ryskind talks about their communist party in the hollywood during -- in hollywood during

the 1930's. and on in-depth, our live the our conversation. her books include "the tyranny of the majority," and "the minor's canary -- miner's canary." and a discussion about the burning of you, south carolina following the surrender of the city to william tecumseh sherman. and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on oral history, an interview with daniel ellsberg and the pentagon papers. a classified study on vietnam which he copied and gave to the "new york times" in 1971. find a complete television schedule at c-span.org. and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching you call us, e-mail less -- us, or send us a tweet. during the c-span conversation.

like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> each week, americans artifacts takes you to museums archives, and historic basis. the amelia heart -- a millionaire heart archives at purdue university shows a selected items from the ehrhardt collection, including poems and letters she wrote to her families, as well as a prenuptial letter she gave to her husband on her wedding day. amelia ehrhardt worked in west levy at for the last years of her life. it was during this flight that ehrhardt disappeared and 1987. >> from an airplane, even the watchful purple hills could not see so well as i the state of

evening. creeping from its heart, nor the round yellow eyes growing still. she would have been 23 whenever she was writing these. you can see that she has a romantic side. being able to see nature below her. when she became an aviation -- she would write about the beauty of flying and how she loved things like seeing the clouds up there and the serenity of being on her own and being able to look at the beauty below. amelia ehrhardt was an early woman pilot at a time when many women did not have careers outside of the home. she is most well remembered for having disappeared. it is still a mystery what happened to her. she is also remembered because she was such a pioneer for women's rights and women's education and careers.

equality of the sexes was very important to her as well as promoting aviation as a legitimate travel option. many people were afraid to fight at that time. it was not until around 1920 when she started really thinking seriously about taking flying lessons. she had to convince her family because it was dangerous and expensive and they did not have the money to allow her to do that. she started taking jobs so she could pay for her own lessons. one of the requirements her father had was that she take lessons from a woman pilot. that took her a little bit longer to locate a woman pilot who would give her instructions, but eventually she found nita. what is interesting is if you read things from her perspective, amelia was horrible because she would daydream in the air, she was loving the beauty and the height and the excitement and was not paying attention to the technical things she needed to know.

>> the c-span's cities to her -- tour -- next weekend, we partner with comcast to a visit to galveston, texas. >> the opening of the suez canal in 1869, sailing ships were almost built. with that opening of the canal coal fired ships had a shorter route to the far east, to india's, to all of those market. so sailing ships really needed to find a way to make their own living. so instead of high-value cargo, they started carrying lower valued cargoes. coal oil cotton, etc.

they really found their niche in really carrying any kind of cargo that did not require getting to market at a very fast pace. >> watch all of our adventure galveston saturday, march 7 at eastern on "booktv." and on sunday on "american history tv." up next on "american history tv ," former cia joanna mendez recounts the story of how to spice infiltrated the cia and gathered top-secret information through the use of sex in the 1970's. mendez reports that one popular d.c. swingers club, frequented by the couple, counted at least 10 study i -- 10 cia staffers and members -- as members.