this year, we are featuring best selling fiction writers on in-depth fiction addition. the most recent book is the fallen on the national best seller fiction list. novels.re over 30 "e has written "the finisher and "the keeper." our special series in-depth fiction addition sunday live from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> featuring tyler, texas.

located 100 miles east of dallas, and known as the rose capital of america, learn more about tyler all weekend on american history tv. ii tookng in world war on a new meaning in the war. had somethat, we bombing and mostly ground forces. the bombers were able to destroy cities and infrastructure you didn't have access to from the ground. they went after strategic targets. they could be factories, thatary bases, anything supports the country's war fighting capability. it became very popular.

the military will tell you today, we cannot win a war without air power. what developed in world war ii was strategic bombing. wilbur dixon became a photographer --elmer dixson became a photographer. they made him a photographer during the war. he was in the pacific, where he took photographs of a numerous different targets from the air. they made h.a.m. the repository for all of the artifacts. we are in the room with the more memorable things he has given us. we have two of his cameras, era cameras.

the room is popular, because people like to see something from local people in our museums. before you bomb a target, you need to know what it looks like from the air. you need to know where you want to place the bomb. they had to go in. before world war ii, we didn't have aerial photographers likely to today -- aerial photography like we do today. different send airplanes to take aerial photography of different cities and installations. they would review them and look at what was important to be bombed and what was not. that is why aerial photography took off. his job was very vital. 2 items that we have, which includes 4 pictures of pre-and

post strikes from the air of hiroshima and nagasaki. anis the first time we used atomic bomb in hiroshima and second in nagasaki. this was taken a short time a month or year before. just a few days before the bombing. they knew that they would be bombed. whether they knew they would use an atomic bomb, i'm not sure. they knew they would be bombing the cities. they had several cities on the agenda, by the way. peopleng we have that don't really know about is prior to bombing hiroshima and nagasaki, we dropped phamplets on the city where we said leave. we don't want to kill you, we

are going to bomb the city. leave. after wemb the city said we would. his photography helped us win the war for sure. he helped provide a real service for the country. he is a local hero here in tyler. >> our cities tour staff travel to tyler, texas to learn about its history. learn more at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> monday morning, we are in lincoln, nebraska. nebraska governor pete rickett will be our guest on the bus during "washington journal."

from 1876 to 1918, puck was one of the most widely the satire magazine's from period. khan joins us.er this is about 25 minutes. >> you are watching "american artifacts." joining us in the studios is michael alexander khan, the co-author of the book "what fools these mortals be: the story of puck," thank you for being with us. what was "puck?" weeklymost important