has aided moscow's domination of their muslim population. so the critical factor for the future of the afghan insurgency will be the spirit of the rugged muslim tribesmen. are they prepared to endure such an ordeal for possibly years yet to come? there are no signs that they are losing heart in this savage fight for their country. >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span three. >> next, the c-span cities tour visits the carolina basketball museum to learn about the history of tar heel basketball, which dates back to 1910. ♪

>> the carolina basketball started in 1910, the first national championship in 1957 with an undefeated 32-0 season. >> north carolina did it. north carolina wins the championship! won seven national championships, 18 acc championships, coaches of the year, olympians, and a lot of great nba players have come out of the nba. -- 52 tar heel players have been drafted. >> go, heels! >> you are standing in the

carolina basketball museum in the building immediately adjacent to where the carolina men's basketball team plays its games. smith, our legendary hall hasame basketball coach, donated his entire collection of basketball memorabilia to the university. this basketball museum is sort of the one place that houses that history. we decided we wanted to start off with how the uniforms have evolved. one thing people get a kick out , the the number 10 jersey national player of the year in 1957 when we won the championship. people are stunned to see there jersey.nd the frank maguire was the coach at the time and wanted to jazz up the uniforms, so he put red trim in and people were surprised.

throughout the years, there is not much red in the carolina uniforms. that is the color of our arrival, nc state, so now our uniforms are blue-and-white and that is it. it came out of a couple literary societies at unc and one's colors were white and one's were blue, so that is how it came about basketball took off in the 1940's and 1950's and has become the top program in all of college sports, not just basketball. carolina basketball is a marquee program across the country. basketball has changed across the years and certainly the biggest change is with integration. in 1910, it was all white teams. charlie scott was the first 1966, became an

nba hall of famer. michael jordan, a lot of the successive carolina basketball has come from black players. 1953,he acc was formed in that set in motion what is now known in acc basketball. about four years in, carolina went 32-0, undefeated national champions, bill -- b12 beaterlain and triple -- wilt chamberlain in triple overtime. that changed basketball in the acc. thereorth carolina won, were 10,000 people at the airport when they came back. games the first televised in the state of north carolina, so for a lot of reasons, it took off in the 1950's with that national championship team, some of the great tar heels from that

team. from that, coach smith, dean smith began his program five years after that and became the winningest coach in cal -- college basketball history and is a legend in chapel hill. towas the coach from 1961 1997. when he retired, he was the winningest coach in basketball history. he helped the united states when the olympics in 1976. win thethe olympics -- olympics in 1976. play smart and play together. all of the coaches that have come after coach smith, they all live by that idea. that is what coach smith lived by.his sort of -- lived this sort of grecian urn is sports illustrated sportsman of

the year. the si sportsman of the year, coach smith won in 1997. there is a great story about how we got the artifact exam. items heventory of donated, we could not find it so we looked everywhere, even at his house, and nobody could find it. somebody who visited his house five years earlier said, i think i know where that is. they went to the house, looked on top in the dining room of a cabinet and tucked in between two plants on top of this cabinet was one of the most prestigious awards given in sports each year. the other one that is very prominent is the presidential medal of freedom that president obama bestowed upon coach smith several years ago. that is a photo of his family members, as well as coach got

the ridge on the left and coach williams on the right with michelle and barack obama. they took tremendous pride in coach smith receiving that award. all basketball awards are great, but the presidential award of freedom is probably the most prestigious artifact in this museum. there are three players who have their own cases here at the carolina basketball museum -- , andford, tyler hansbrough of course michael jordan, who many people believe, and we think here is the greatest basketball player of all time. michael was good enough to loan us several items from his collection. we also found some great artifacts in our own files of letters that coach smith sent to michael, things he wanted him to learn on, a recruiting card that

playermith kept on every he recruited. first on the card, it is michael and not michael and his middle name is magic. people did not know until they saw that card that in high school his nickname was magic jordan. michael went to his home in chicago and picked out several items to put in the museum, whether it was nba all-star game trophies, m.v.p., national player awards that he won at north carolina. one item that gets a lot of mention is the recruiting letter. it is probably one of the most talked about light -- items because of the respect michael has for the coach. it is certainly one of those pieces where people go, why is

there a letter from duke university? they see it is a letter about his and -- recruitment. michael is a great ambassador of the university of north carolina and one of the greatest players of all time in all of nba history. basketball is important not just at unc, but in this state, this region, certainly in our community, and definitely on campus at unc. the acc has grown. it was called tobacco road because so many of the problems were based in north carolina. basketball is part of the culture. part of when you come to school in north carolina, people come here to be part of carolina basketball, men's and women's basketball athletics is important. it is not the primary reason people come to the school. getting a great education will always be the primary admission,

but basketball is part of that. ,t is part of life in the acc and people take it seriously at our citiesina >> tour staff recently traveled to chapel hill, north carolina to learn about its rich history. to learn about chapel hill and other stops visit c-span3 -- c-span cities tour. c-span3.atching [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> author and former classical musician jonathan rosenberg discusses his new book, "dangerous melodies: classical music in america from the great war through the cold war," which explores the intersection of politics and music in the first half of the 20th century. mr. rosenberg describes how music can serve as a tool of outreach and xenophobia, depending on the political climate of the era.