augusta again is on the alert that sherman may be coming back. once again they disassembled the powder works machinery. german is not coming to augusta set it up another time. -- sherman is not coming to augusta. he burned columbia, so he would have been a great lost to the confederate war effort. at that point the war was in its final stages. after the war ended, there was no need to manufacture gunpowder. manufacturing ceased. the building stood empty for a period of time. the land was scheduled lies and eventually the federal government sold the land and the building on it back to the city of augustine in the 1870's. -- city of augusta.

they asked that the chimney remain as a war memorial. the bricks were cleaned and stayed in the rest of the building was torn down. the augusta canal was deepened and widened to allow for more water power. those bricks were built back into other plants. after the expansion, the factories that were built are the same ones that when you see on our boat ride. this mill was built in 1877. you have sibling mills built in the early 1880's. with industry moving to any area, today as well as yesterday, you are creating a l ot of jobs for people. you are creating better ways to make money, more stable careers for people. you have people moving to town. anytime there is economic

growth, people cannot look to the city, especially a city in the south. -- people can look to the city. the building of the augusta factory, the first the big text title mill really gave augusta a big economic boost. it was a five-story building with lots of looms and the opportunity for lots of workers. it was seen as a gateway to the future. most of the workers in the textile mills in the early days were poor white womena nd and children. they did not have a lot of opportunities for employment outside of domestic labor. they worked about 11 hours a day, six days a week, monday-saturday. not a lot of breaks, not a lot of attention paid to safety. the noseise is what you really

hear stories about. just deafening. they were used to hard work. even the children were used to hard work. the children of that work in the mill if we had still been an agricultural society, they would be working in the farms. working in the mill was not that fun an idea to them as it is to us when we think about children working in factories. everyone carried their own weight in the family. everyone worked very hard to survive. that mentality, i think we have lost a little bit over the years. i'm sure they have lots of aches and pains. it was hard. but they were thankful to be able to have food on this table for their family. how history is influenced by geography is a huge element

here. without that fall line location in the savannah river, none of this would be possible. the decision that was made by forward thinking leaders more than 150 years ago to build a canal to save augusta's economy is it still reverberating today. if the canal had not been built in 1845 it's possible that this town may have gone away. >> throughout the weekend american history tv is featuring augusta, georgia. our city's tour staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. learn about augusta and other stops on our tour on c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv, a weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> each week, american history tv's reel america brings you archival films that helps tell

the story of the 20th century. ♪ >> from stem to stern, the ship is a honeycomb of watertight compartments. engine rooms, fire rooms, fuel tanks. magazines packed with enough of assorted explosives to pack us all to kingdome come. it is long enough to hold for trade print -- four freight trains abreast. ♪ the fighters take a first and form cover aloft with the other squadron. then the bombers.

they lay on destruction. as our first fighters racing towards the island, they stay low, hoping to escape detection by the enemy's radar. then they climbed suddenly and dive, a surprise attack on the enemy air base. these redf falls floating up at us so lazily or antiaircraft fire. three times as much of it coming at us that we can see. only one shell in three is a tracer. what look like pollywog's or tracers from our own jets. -- are tracers from our own jets. all through these battle pictures we are looking straight down our own gun barrels. these pictures are taken automatically by the same

mechanism that operates the guns. the pictures even shake with the gun's recoil. our eye is now the very i of our fighting airplanes. -- very eye of our fighting airplanes. the enemy's boats and supply ships are thoroughly routed. no longer will they bring emissions to do island. as the fighers and bombers swing victoriously away from marcus island, towering columns of smoke show the thorough job our boys have done. back aboard a ship, smokey is tracking the flyers with care to make sure that none is missing and that no enemy planes are trying to follow them out.

now is when the landing signal officer estimates the battle damage of planes. ♪ the pilot of a torpedo plane has been unable to release his load of incendiaries. turbine is spilling out incandescent heat. the plane still contains about 75 gallons of high octane gas. the men who buried this danger -- who brave this danger deserve every citation they get. >> joint american history tv tomorrow as we look back 50 years to the voting rights act. president lyndon johnson went to the u.s. capitol rotunda on

august 6, 19 city five two signed the bill he believed would be his greatest legacy. -- august 6, 1965. we want your white house -- we will hear white house telephone calls between nok and numbers of congress to strategize and enact the voting rights law. we talk with lbj's domestic advisor and an historian who has edited transcripts of lbj's white house call. and we will see his speech at the capital before he signed the bill. sunday at 10:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. next on american history tv, university of california berkeley history professor examines the intersection of guns capitalism, and revolution in the americas. he discusses the history of a gun production in europe and how

the americans did not create their own large-scale gun production system in the 1700s. it focuses on the american revolution and how arms trading contributed to an american victory. he also talks about capitalism's role in the haitian revolution of 1791-1804. this was the society of historians for american foreign relations annual meeting. it is about 50 minutes. >> it's my great pleasure to introduce our featured speaker for today's lunch. you are in for a treat. you made a smart decision to be in this room right now. that's not in here. professor brian de lay is a native of colorado springs. he grew up in of the springs -- i am a former resident of the