to join the conversation, like cspanhistory.nader: i want to start by corvair from the my book "unsafe at any speed." this is the original. how quaint. , thatas the 72 update started with the progress under the law, and then this is the , thehat just came out effect anniversary. a lot of times this book is described as a book that exposed the corvair, as if the entire book was about the corvair. the entire book was not on the corvair. it was just on the first chapter. but look at a private letter sent to gm executive tom murphy before he hadong his problems, i might add. [laughter] was -- he was on the way to becoming in most people's eyes the president of general letter tod he wrote a ,om murphy, very private letter which was about 1971 or so. in the letter he said, "the swing axle corvair was put into -- by the way, for those of you who do not know delorean's career, he was head of chevrolet, a fast, up-and-coming engineer with an engineering touch that marked him as a real, and the hierarchy. "the swing axle corvair was put i

to join the conversation, like us on facebook, @cspanhistory. 2015 marks the 100th anniversary griffith's film "birth of a nation." examines thetory" release of the film. this program is about an hour and a half. >> hello, i am chris wilson here at the museum. andehalf of the smithsonian

follow us on twitter, @cspanhistory, to keep up with the latest history news. >> tonight, tyler abellks about the second volume of mr. pearson's diaries, which give an insider's look of washington, 1969.from 1960- >> it was just remarkable all of the things he did. sometimes he would criticize himself in the diary. a placed come across that says, i think that call him was too strong, i should not have said it that way. or lyndon is going to get mad at me for the way i wrote that column. but it needed to be told. and i'm glad i wrote it. >> tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on "q&a." coming up next, boise state university professor lisa brady talks how clinical agents were used in the korean and vietnam wars. u.s. troops began to see v4 and landscapes as an enemy rather than an obstacle. defoliations the missions and the long-term damage. this class is about an hour and 15 minutes. professor brady: ok, so today we will be talking about the wars in korea and vietnam from an environmental history perspective. many of you are aware of how the war progressed. these are important wars in

if you want to tweet at us, you can do so @cspanhistory. post on facebook page. let's pretend i'm a prisoner coming to the prison. what's my day like? how am i processed into there and what happens to me after that? >> in the 14 months of the prison's operation, the answer to that question changes dramatically. for those initial prisoners who arrive in late february of 1864 it seems strange when you know what comes later. they see andersonville as an improvement. it's better than libby prison or bell isle at richmond. it's an improvement. the weather in south georgia seems nicer. they've got a change of venue. they're kind of excited about that opportunity. as prisoners arrive, every prisoner that arrives here and leaves here does so on a train. the train is integral to this story, and when you're offloaded at the train station, the train itself, the train tracks, the train station are almost a half a mile to the west of the main prison compound, the stockade. and so there's a march, what some prisoners refer to as 800 paces to hell later on. then outside of the

to join the conversation, like us on facebook, @cspanhistory. 2015 marks the 100th anniversary griffith's film "birth of a nation." examines thetory" release of the film. this program is about an hour and a half. >> hello, i am chris wilson here at the museum. andehalf of the smithsonian in partnership with the film form, i would like to welcome you. that we wanted to consider " birth of a nation as perhaps the best example affecting the public understanding or , and at theding historical home form, "birth of a nation" has come up over and over with film makers, scholars, and the audience. we are happy to be able to join with back story with the american history guys, the virginia foundation for the humanities, and c-span american history television to bring you this show looking at the film, what it means one century later, and what lessons we can draw for the creation of history film today. thank you for joining us. and now, the history film forum presents, "the birth of a nation" at 100, a live back story show. [applause] >> from the virginia foundation for the humanities, this is "bac

follow us on twitter at @cspanhistory to keep up with our schedule. >> all weekend, american historytv features worcester, massachusetts, where the first national women's rights convention was held in october of 1850. sites,ntly visited many revisiting the history of the city. on american history tv all weekend. wpi was founded 150 years ago on the idea of bringing theory and practice together. that is the motto, "theory" and practice." it is not just about the laboratory, but the broader world. robert goddard is the theory of modern -- father of modern rocketry. he invented the liquid fueled rocket and proved that such rocket travel was possible. truly, a visionary and an innovator. we share so much today about visionaries and innovators in the tech field and such. he was a visionary and an innovator 150 years ago. he did a lot of experiments in his life. he came from the laboratory and went into the field to test his rockets. he did that here in central massachusetts. there is rumored to be a roof somewhere on the campus patched because of one of his experiments going on as planned