confederation and then into the constitution. >> watch afterwords on the tv. >> all we can, american history tv is joining our cable partners to showcase the history of hyde park, new york. to learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit c-span.org. we continue with a look at the history of hyde park. >> we are on the hudson river today and we will show you some of the local sites and sounds you can enjoy in hyde park. much of the river you will visit today was referred to as million millionaire's row because of the many homes owned by the wealthy families.

it has been used for trade and travel in the river continues to serve as an important trading route. begins50 miles long that in the enron duck mountains and ends in york harbor. at its widest point it is almost three miles wide and at its deepest merely to enter feet deep. but the river is one of america's national treasures and it played an important part in the history of development of new york state. it is the principal river of new york and was an important highway of commerce. it is hard to remember in these days the superhighways -- in these days of superhighways, but in the early 1800s transportation was a difficult task. roads were primitive, railroads had not been invented, and travelers and trade goods were often delayed by currents on the river. and it all changed with the invention of the steamboat. on august 14, 19 -- 1807, robert. 's steamboat made its first

successful voyage from new york to albany and back again. in 62 hours. a journey that would have taken a week with sailboats. it revolutionized water travel by decreasing the amount of time for passengers and cargo to reach new york city markets. in those days, everything moved on the river, bricks, ice, coal, iron ore, even the mail. now the opening of the erie canal in 1825, followed by another canal in 1828, contributed to the flow of people using the river for both travel and commerce. economies ofed the towns on the banks. stretching from albany to buffalo, the erie canal joined the hudson to the great lakes, creating a sea passage from the east coast to the midwest. it also turned new york harbor into america's number one port. by 1850, approximately 100

steamboats on the river carrying over one million passengers a year. >> this weekend, we are featuring the history of hyde park, new york, together with cable partners. learn more about hyde park and other stops on our poor at c-span.org. you are watching american history tv all we can, every weekend on c-span3. q & a.on >> barack is committed to presenting his story and i think that is different from history. >> part one of our interview with david gero who talks about his book "rising star." which covers the life of barack obama up to his winning the presidency. >> i think that his political aspirations and sense of destiny aside.m to push yaeger

during that time, there was a well-known political figure in chicago, hugely respected man, senator dickon newhouse who everybody in black chicago could never go higher -- in black chicago believes could never go higher because he is married to a white woman. it is in the tradition of black chicago in the early 1990's that for a black man to aspire to it isent black chicago, necessary to have a black spouse. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures inn history, paul marino teaches a class on 1950's american culture. he describes how post-world war ii society changed due to the baby boom, suburbanization, and

the emergence of teenage culture. here is a preview. families, the chief institution by which these, by which individuals are socialized, and families of victorians, it goes without saying but it was monogamous and heterosexual. that the family was the nuclear family and it was between one man and one woman only. but again, to emphasize the ways in which victorian social standards were different from earlier ones, it was still voluntary, no arranged marriages, the family was much more based on a section rather than interest or compulsion. and it was nuclear, this is not the extended family, this is premodern society and the modern nuclear family. coming to shape in the 19th century and into the 20th.

so divorce therefore is limited. faulty, no states had no divorce laws until the 1960's. divorce was deliberately meant to be expensive and difficult to obtain credit was stigmatized -- obtain. it was stigmatized. it was scandalous in the 1970's when i was growing up. and after that, divorce did grow rapidly in the 19 70's, but at this time it was something that was unusual and socially frowned upon. --was also politically people like nelson rockefeller, who was more or less an eligible to be president because he had been divorced. there was not a supreme court justice that had been divorced until the 1930's. so, divorce had this stigmatism because it was a threat to the family, which is the central institution.

professorle college paul marino, tonight on lectures in history at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern. here on american history tv. sunday night on afterwords, utah republican senator mike lee talks about historical figures that fought against big government in his book, "written out of history." he is interviewed by neil -- >> when you're on the lookout for them they come to you gradually. i asked friends and other people who they thought should be getting more credit than they do get. in the case of this leader, he is an iroquois indian chief and he understood federalism because they had lived it for centuries before we were our own country. i was intrigued by the onset because it is not a name that americans know anything about and yet he had a profound impact

on our system of government, because he is the guy that enabled benjamin franklin to learn about federalism, and ben franklin is the person through which the information flowed into the articles of confederation, and then the constitution. >> watch sunday night at nine about pm eastern on c-span2. next on american history tv, commonwealth professor kathryn shively meier discusses jubal early's experiences as a confederate general, focusing on his loss to union general philip sheridan during the 1864 shenandoah campaign. she also analyzes early memoirs and explores how he attempted to rehabilitate his reputation after the civil war. this 45 minute talk was part of a conference hosted by the university of virginia's center for civil war history. >>