>> this weekend, american history tv joints our comcast cable partners to showcase the history of visalia, california. to learn more about our cities on her current tour, visit c-span.org/citiestour. we look back at the history of we are headed today initially in our downtown area. and we hadrowing shopping malls, started to spring up, and people were moving outside of the town you will tend to see locally owned shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues. to our left we have the fox theater.

the fox theater is one of our anchors of our downtown. it is an icon for downtown. office,eft is the post which is an arctic -- art deco building in the art deco style. to our left is a sequoia tree that came here as a three-year-old sapling from the grand grove of trees up and kings canyon, national park. their offices down in the basement of the post office and since it is a federal building, the federal employees, the superintendent of kings canyon would spend his winters down here working out of an office in the basement. visalia has a strong connection with sequoia national park and the national parks service. role in getting sequoia designated as a national park in the first place. a local newspaper man started a campaign to get the park designated and to protect the giant sequoias from logging. i wanted to mention the palace

hotel. this is the building that is catty corner to us. the second floor of that was a hotel always. the ground floor was always retail. i mentioned a little bit about the town's connection to the national park. 1915, a party came to the hotel and stayed there. the second floor hasn't been touched over 80 years. you can get the vibe of what it was like in 1915 before they left on a trek through the sierra and sequoia national park. the point of the journey was to emphasize how the national parks that already been designated were falling into disrepair because they were not under one umbrella to manage them. for a creationng of what would soon become the national parks service so all of these properties will be under one management directive. that is kind of a great historic

building there. -- and really solidified our connection to our national park neighbors. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to visalia ,california to learn about its rich history. learn more about the town and other stops on our tour at you arerg/citiestour. watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> sunday, on american history tv, a look at russell kirk, a leading conservative author whose book, " the conservative mind," was printed in 1953. here's a preview. >> i want to say work but russell kirk's great compassion. we often look with skepticism of compassion in the mouth of a politician. russell kirk, lives compassion. one of the great things he did,

and this may be one area where he disagrees with the administration is that he brought in refugees. not only did you have a hobo as john had alluded to, you also had young women who found themselves pregnant and alone in michigan and in the cost of. they had a welcome space at russell kirk's home. as it refugees from vietnam and communism in eastern europe. it should be said that russell kirk was prudential and wise about selecting these refugees. they were the victims of communism. they were not a pell-mell crowd that would include the victimizers as well as those who suffered. perhaps even in this respect, withll kirk would look some sympathy toward the difficulties facing the top administration today. he himself was someone who extended an opening -- an open and welcome hand to strangers.

i think that is something which conservatives, while being conservatives and being tough-minded, nonetheless, that is an example we can aspire to live up to. >> live -- learn more about russell clerks influence -- russell kirk's legacy sunday at 6:55 p.m. eastern here on american history to be -- tv. tv,ext on american history historians rick atkinson and richard frank talk about to world war ii battles, hurtgen f peleliu, but resulted in high american cap -- casualties. the talk about whether these battles are necessary and if they impacted the larger campaigns. was part of a larger three day campaign hosted by the american world war ii museum in new orleans. >> welcome back everyone. for those of you who are frequent attendant dees at our conferences, the next three