>> yes, wooly mammoths, mastodons most likely. yeah, they did. had existed here. there were people here. naturally, they hunted them. you have to go way back in time to the ice age. if you have people back there, yes, they hunted those. they didn't do it recently. have i worn you out? >> oh, no. >> thank you for coming. [ applause ] >> a after 30 years of space plight the space shuttle program has come to an end. this spring the shuttle's "discovery" and "enterprise" were delivered to their new retirement homes in virginia and new york. atlantis is based flat's kennedy space center. next on american history tv, we revisit the space program's early wrest days as we hear from mercury 7 astronaut scott carpenter. one of america's first men in space. he was interviewed as part of the nasa johnson space center oral history project. this interview was conducted in 1999 by roy neil, long time nbc news reporter and correspondent who covered the american man space program. it is a little over 50 minutes. >> you were born here in colorado. anything in that background that l

i was giving a tour and somebody said that the early indians had interacted and hunted wooly mammoths. i had not heard that before. since you talk about the ice age, is that true, that the very earliest indians would? >> yes, wolly mammoths, masdodons most likely. yeah, they did. there were people here. naturally, they hunted them. you have to go way back in time to the ice age. if you have people back there, yes, they hunlted those. they didn't do it recently. have i worn you out? >> oh, no. >> thank you for coming. [ applause ] >>> this week on the civil war. historians and authors, including david blight and stephanie mccurry discuss ongoing legacies of the civil war. the issues and controversies still being bourn out today. yale university's gil der letter man center hosted this event. it is about an hour and 45 minutes. >>> good afternoon, everyone. >> good afternoon. >> i was in a bunch of southern churches recently. you either do it right or you don't do it. welcome. i am david blight directy for gilder lehrman center for abolition. this is the lecture series which we founded a