hope that people that just dream, they are just going to feel they want to ship, to come here, because it is possible. we have three americans on board. i hope the kids will dream. i hope their parents will know the american culture all over the world. and it's, to me, it is more than the relation the diplomatic question between france and u.s.a. it is really more than that. cultural and just for minutes, a minute of pleasure now. some people live -- when i don't know whas is in - - what is in america, in france when we talk about hermione, they are just smiling. this really pleases us. that's why. [fife and drum corps playing]

♪ [music fades] >> next week while congress is out for the july for holiday break, american history tv is in prime time on c-span 3 featuring a different topic each night. monday, the manhattan project, the production of the first nuclear weapon during world war ii. tuesday, a symposium on the 1955 debate between james baldwin and national review founder william

f buckley junior about the american dream. wednesday, highlights of our 2015 c-span cities tour. and thursday, examine the text of the declaration of independence and the efforts behind preserving the original document. friday, we are in yorktown to cover the welcoming ceremony of the public of the french sailing ship hermione that brought its representative general marquis de lafayette to america in 1780. watch our primetime edition of american history tv starting monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, and tune in every weekend as we tell america's story on american history tv on c-span 3. like many of us, first families take vacation time. and, like president and first lady's, a good read can be the perfect companion for your summer journeys. what better book than one that appears inside the personal life of every first lady in american history. " first ladies, presidential

historians on the lives of 45 american women." inspiring stories of fascinating women who survived the scrutiny of the white house. a great summertime read. available from public affairs as a hardcover or e-book. through your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. >> tonight on "the communicators," we visited microsoft's washington, d.c. office to hear about their current research projects. we will talk with vice president of government affairs corporate vice president of research, and the research engineering manager. >> i'm hopeful at some point congress will take on immigration, because -- it's so very important. and i don't know the exact number, but when we have the researchers that are here, we have people from all over the world that make contributions at

microsoft who are scientists and engineers. and it is for other companies as well. there is still a need from a jobs perspective. >> the application of project -- is to collect mosquitoes that have bitten people and to determine what kind of viruses might be around, what kind of diseases might be around through taking the blood samples of the mosquitoes and figuring out the genetic code of some of the constituents of the blood. >> premise of this research project was around what we would be able to do with data that is freely available in the environment today. one of the things we have noticed is that there are a lot of aircraft flying around and the united states that could be considered -- sensors.

they have data on them. it is freely available, provided by the faa. and there are companies like flight aware that use that information to provide information to the community about what airplanes are doing. so, we decided to take that information and see if we could use that to help us winds aloft. when the wind is doing in terms of speed and direction. > a visit to microsoft's washington dc office, tonight i did a funny start on the communicators on c-span two. >> next, author marilyn irvin holt talks about how the u.s. government became more involved in baby boomers' cold war childhood from regulating comic books, to curbing juvenile delinquency, in large part to prepare america's children to compete against their communist peers. this 50-minute talk is sponsored