books. thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you to our authors. >> while working at the rand corporation in 1967, mr. elsberg became a consultant to the white house at the defense department

on giving them top secret documents. he foe copied a 7,000 page study that later became known as the pentagon papers and in 1971, he gave the documents to the new york times. an interview with daniel elsberg, part of a richard nixon presidential library project here on american history tv today at 2:00 p.m. eastern. >> each week, american history tv's "reel america" brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. on march 8 1965, 3500 marines were deployed to vietnam, marking the beginning of the u.s. ground war. by the end of 1965, almost 200,000 americans were in the country. 300 million americans served in the conflict. and 58,000 lost their lives. up next. screaming eagles in vietnam, a u.s. army. the big picture episode,

documenting the activities of the 101st airborne division from the arrival in the spring of 1965 through january of 1967. >> each time the shelling starts, the enmif withdraws the attacking forces to escape the punishing fires. what it's left with, regroups and tries to take the camp. despite week-long air strikes by u.s. air force jets, the vietcong have shown no signs of withdrawing. but the artillery fire is having a telling effect. the screaming eagles on the

fire. the enemy comes to silence the guns. communist fire comes from everywhere. out there, the enemy is creeping in. he will try to overrun the american physicians. the waiting is agony. then the enemy makes his move. this is it. live or die.

>> the vietcong have had enough. they are nowhere to be found. 11 vietnamese are found, however, in a vietcong prison camp. they have apparently received no medical attention in the hands of the open sores and skin infections to malnutrition. as well as deformities caused by unset broken bones. this man, a former vietcong who defected to the republic and later captured by the vc cannot tell of his unspeakable nightmare with the enemy.

>> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american tv on the road, travelling to cities to learn about history and literary life. next weekend, we partner with comcast for a visit to galveston, texas. >> with the opening of the suez canal in 1869, sailing trips were almost dealt a death blow. with the opening of the canal, coal-fired ships had a shorter route to the -- to the far east and to india, to all of those markets. so sailing ships really needed to find a way to make their own living. so they instead of high value cargo, they started carrying lower valued cargo. coal, oil, cotton, etc. alyssa found her niche in carrying any kind of cargo that

did not require getting to market it at a very fast pace. >> watch all of the events from galveston, saturday, march 2 and sunday, march 8 at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. each week, american history tv's "american artifacts, visits museums and historic places. founded in 1923, the museum of the city of new york's collection contains nearly 750,000 objects. we visited to learn about the exhibit, guildled new york. >> my name is janine falino. i'm one of the co-curators of guilded new york fashion, society, and culture that's being shown here at the museum of the city of new york. a show that happened in november of 2013 and closes in october of 2014. in this beautiful little jewel box of a gallery we've

assembled a variety of objects that help the pub luck to appreciate what life was like for the 1% in the original guilded age i, that period that followed the civil war from about the 1880s to about 1910. and that period was characterized by great wealth, kind of like the dot-.com people of our own era, but in those days, the money came from various kinds of industries, mining, railroads, smelting iron, and also the rise of the modern corporation. all those businesses yielded enormous wealth, at the same time that there was mass immigration to the area, a time when new york was unified by all of its burroughs and the total population was over 3 1/2 million people. with all those -- with that mixture of people coming, the lower classes, this rising upper class, there was this desire to sort of set oneself apart from

the teeming masses, and so this .1% of people, they decided to move up fifth avenue, establish their own beautiful homes. import all of the greatest works they could from europe. and hire great american architects to design their holmes and add to the beauty within them and fashion their clothes and live their own beautiful life. >> our contemporary product is absolutely -- absolutely mesmerized by those who are glamorous and rich and famous and beautiful. and most of the materials in this gallery were owned by individuals who everybody emulated in their day. so from our perspective, we, in our egocentric manner think that we'vecelebrity and cult of glamour. it is very important to know that we did not do it.

there was an echelon of social figures and theatrical figures who were constantly in the press , constantly interviewed and whose clothing and jewelry or described in great detail in the latter part of the 19th century. the public followed them just as feverishly as our public follows our contemporary celebrities. >> it was given as a gift by a wealthy industrialist to an orthopedic surgeon. >> you've been watching a preview of american artifacts. visit c-span.org for schedule information and to view entire programs online. section one of the 14th amendment is known for granting citizenship to former slaves. another clause, section three, attempted to bar from public office anyone who took part in the confederate cause. professor taja-nia henderson