passenger ferry that was part of the texas department of transportation system owing between galveston to the east. they used to learn the rules of the road. they had ship came in, the opportunity to go on a summer training cruise. when school was out, they would board the ship and in the beginning of june, they would sail and come back and ought -- in august, having done just about everything you could do on a ship, including visit many of the reports. the ship was renamed when it was claimed for the academy, renamed the u.s. training ship texas clipper. i taught on the ship about a studentsrs, teaching english composition.

that is the reason when the ship was put in mothballs in beaumont and it looked like it was not going to go anywhere at all. just kind of sink and rest in the bottom of the harbor. the texas department of transportation claimed it to make an artificial reef. i had the idea of writing a book about it. my book is called "the ship that would not die." it is about that history from when itthrough the time was sunk as a reef in 2007. now it is home to florida and fun under the sea and home to -- fauna under the sea. we continue on monday with a trip to topeka, kansas, and hear about the confrontations over

kansas being a free or slave state. we will tour the state capital and have a conversation with sam brownback. monday at 6:00 p.m. on c-span. sunday night on q&a, senior talks about state building efforts in afghanistan. the u.s. did achieve improvements, but it depends on how it ends. i hesitate and i interrogate myself and question myself. we don't know how it will end. it is possible to see five years down the road we will be back in a civil war in afghanistan. i see this emerging in the

country, it is worse than the taliban. the taliban is deeply entrenched. if we end up five years down the road and a new civil war in afghanistan, a new safe haven for the taliban and isis, i would say it is not worth the price. easterny night at 8:00 on q&a. weekend on politics, books, and american history. at 6:00 p.m., hurricane katrina's 10th anniversary, with a public commemoration. speakers include bill clinton. and sunday evening on our road to the white house coverage, speakers from hillary clinton and bernie sanders at the summer meeting in minneapolis. and book tv on saturday attack clock eastern. -- at 10:00 eastern.

". robbins about his book undocumented." to mark the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina, several programs about the storm and its aftermath featuring reporters. afternoon,saturday former nasa astronaut don thomas discusses the history of space stations, comparing the development of russian and theican programs since 1950's in looking of the future of international space station efforts. america, real appointment in tokyo is a 1945 film documenting the course of world war ii in the pacific theater from the japanese invasion of the philippines through the surrender ceremony

on september 2, 1945. get our complete schedule and c-span.org. >> all four democratic presidential candidates who spoke at the summer meeting in minneapolis starting at 8:00 eastern. hillary clinton followed by bernie sanders. >> george bush and laura bush visited a new orleans high school to mark the anniversary of hurricane katrina. the school is more -- one of 100 that received money from the laura bush foundation school library recovery initiative. >> thank you vmu